Search: 1950s
🇫🇷 France and 2 morePompadour
High-volume hair swept up and back from the forehead.Updo · Any hair · 1950
WorldPixie cut
A short hairstyle with a longer top and very short bangs.Cut · 1953
🇬🇧 United KingdomQuiff
A voluminous front sweep with short sides and back.Styled · Any hair · 1950
🇬🇧 United KingdomPageboy
Straight hair hanging below the ear with an inward turn.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDucktail
A 1950s men's cut with a central rear parting.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreBouffant
A puffy, rounded hairstyle with height at the crown.Styled · Any hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreSurfer hair
Tousled, sun-bleached locks from the sea.Styled · Wavy hair · 1950
WorldButterfly haircut
A layered style blending short and long sections for volume.Cut · 1950
WorldHair straightening
A technique to flatten and smooth hair texture using heat or chemicals.Styled · Curly hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United StatesBettie bangs
Short, straight-across fringe from the 1950s pinup era.Fringe · Straight hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United StatesPin curls
Vintage wet-set technique for soft waves and volumeStyled · Straight hair · 1930
🇺🇸 United StatesSkin fade
A men's haircut where hair blends down to bare skin on the sides and back.Cut · Any hair · 1950
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDucktail
A 1950s men's cut with a central rear parting.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Hair straightening: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pompadour: Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, source
- Pageboy: Jacometto Veneziano, Public domain, source
- Ducktail: Rockbillyboogie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bouffant: Bain News Service, Public domain, source
- Surfer hair: Rachel Amarette, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pixie cut: dvna creative agency: https://www.dvna.fr/, CC BY 3.0, source
- Ducktail: Oceanaris, CC BY 2.0, source