Pageboy
Pageboy
The pageboy or page boy is a hairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medieval page boy). It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. There is often a fringe) (bangs) in the front. This style was popular in the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.
For women
In the early 1950s, the New York City hairdresser M. Lewis popularized this style. Singer Toni Tennille of the 1970s pop duet Captain & Tennille wore one as her signature look along with 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill. In the Oscar-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), the villainous Nurse Ratched is known for her pageboy. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Gone"), Buffy has her hair cut into a pageboy. In the 1960s TV cartoon Underdog), the show's damsel in distress Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma MacMillan) has this hairstyle as her trademark look. Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction also sports a pageboy. AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde and Missi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) both sport pageboys. In the 2003 TV series All Grown Up! (a spin-off of Rugrats), Angelica Pickles (voiced by Cheryl Chase)) sports a pageboy. Velma Dinkley, of the various Scooby-Doo animated series, has worn a short pageboy from her first appearance. Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion wears a shaggy pageboy. At the end of the Japanese anime series Kill la Kill, Satsuki Kiryuin cuts her hair into a page style. In John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars, narrator and main character Hazel Grace Lancaster sports a pageboy haircut. The most prominent women to wear pageboys in the 1970s and 1980s were actress Joanna Lumley as the character Purdey in television's The New Avengers), and Diana, Princess of Wales. In fact it was also known as the "Purdey Cut" and the "Lady Di" in the UK at the time.
For men
!Portrait of a boy, by [Jacometto Veneziano (c. 1475).](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/JacomettoVeneziano005.jpg/250px-JacomettoVeneziano005.jpg)
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