_crop.jpg)
Thepageboy orpage boy is ahairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medievalpage boy. It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. There is often afringe (bangs) in the front.[1] This style was popular in the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.
In the early 1950s, theNew York City hairdresser M. Lewis popularized this style. SingerToni Tennille of the 1970s pop duetCaptain & Tennille wore one as hersignature look along with 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion figure skaterDorothy Hamill. In the Oscar-winning filmOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the villainousNurse Ratched is known for her pageboy. In theBuffy the Vampire Slayer episode"Gone", Buffy has her hair cut into a pageboy. In the 1960s TV cartoonUnderdog, the show'sdamsel in distress Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced byNorma MacMillan) has this hairstyle as hertrademark look.Mia Wallace inPulp Fiction also sports a pageboy.AnnaSophia Robb asViolet Beauregarde andMissi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version ofCharlie and the Chocolate Factory both sport pageboys. In the 2003 TV seriesAll Grown Up! (a spin-off ofRugrats),Angelica Pickles (voiced byCheryl Chase) sports a pageboy.Velma Dinkley, of the variousScooby-Doo animated series, has worn a short pageboy from her first appearance.Rei Ayanami fromNeon Genesis Evangelion wears a shaggy pageboy. At the end of the Japanese anime seriesKill la Kill, Satsuki Kiryuin cuts her hair into a page style. InJohn Green's novelThe 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 actressJoanna Lumley as the character Purdey in television'sThe New Avengers, andDiana, Princess of Wales. In fact it was also known as the "Purdey Cut" and the "Lady Di" in the UK at the time.[citation needed]
The pageboy was popular among men during theearly Renaissance.[2]
This haircut was also popular in the 1900s with young boys as it was first popularized by child actors, such asJohn Tansey and, later,Jackie Coogan. The pageboy look on boys is often referred to as theDutch Boy look after the popular fictional character. The pageboy returned to male fashion in the 1960s for grown men with straight hair after getting popularized by British rock bands such asThe Beatles andThe Rolling Stones. This was copied by many of the U.S. garage rock/punk bands, includingThe Chocolate Watchband,? and the Mysterians,The Monkees and theCount Five.Andy Warhol and several members ofThe Velvet Underground also sported the androgynous haircut. The earlyRamones haircuts were elongated pageboys, also sported, though less long, by the male members ofBlondie. In the 1980s, the haircut became a symbol of garage punk and UK beat music as seen on the albumRockabilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease and worn by bands with 1960s influences, such asThe Barracudas andPrimal Scream.Mansun lead guitarist,Dominic Chad, was known for sporting this haircut in the late nineties.
Although it is currently a hairstyle worn far more by women, many men have worn it, including characters such asMowgli inDisney's 1967 version ofThe Jungle Book,Luke Skywalker in 1977'sStar Wars: A New Hope,He-Man in his 1980s incarnation, Anton Chigurh inNo Country for Old Men,[3] and the eponymous star of the American comic stripPrince Valiant. The latter instance inspired the pageboy's sometime nickname of "the Prince Valiant" or "Prince Valiant cut". The character ofWilly Wonka as played byJohnny Depp in the film version ofCharlie and the Chocolate Factory wore this hairstyle.
David McCallum wore the hairstyle in the 1975 TV seriesThe Invisible Man[4] and child actorAdam Rich popularized it for children in the seriesEight Is Enough, which ran from 1977 to 1981. Roughly during the run of this show, 1977–1981, hairstyles of similar length over the ears became almost universal for American boys and even young men.
English musician,Liam Gallagher during the later days ofOasis’s career in the 2000s, and later in the early 2010s, during his stint withBeady Eye sported this hairstyle.
The hairstyle is also displayed by the brothers Anthony and Phillip Bonfiglio, on the animated seriesF Is for Family.
...while Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh, in a bizarre pageboy haircut, is the most indelible movie villain since Hannibal Lecter.
Media related toPageboy haircut at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition ofpageboy at Wiktionary