Origins
A shorter version of the haircut, parted in the middle and kept in place with pomade became popular during the Edwardian era as a more practical alternative to the longer hair and sideburns fashionable from the 1840s-1890s. This was due in part to the popularity of sporting activities like rugby football among younger men.
Curtained hair was popular during the jazz age of the 1920s and 30s before hep cats and zoot suiters switched to the ducktail and pompadour hairstyles. In Nazi Germany, a version of this haircut which was long on top but shaved at the back and sides was popular among Wehrmacht officers, giving it the nickname "Hitler youth haircut."
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Famous quotes containing the word origins:
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
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The origins of art.”
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