This wide and flat womens Edwardian hairstyle was designed to be worn under a broad-rimmed hat such as the cartwheel.

Women hairstyle during ww1. Her hair is curled framing her face and covering her ears. This would hide the shorn section at the back of the neck. Long hair had been the norm prior to the 1920s therefore cutting ones hair to above the ear was shocking and rebellious.

Womens uniforms had shorter skirts than were customary in 1914 they were now at six to 10 inches off the ground. Here we see the hair piled up on the ladys head. Here the hair has been curled with Marcel-tongs and gently brushed out and styled from the fringe area.

This lady wears a hairstyle that echoes fashion before the war constructed with hair-accessories hair-pieces and a hair-hat. The bob was the hairstyle of the decade symbolic of womens newfound freedom rights and opportunities. How did women wear their hair in ww1.

Large hats with wide brims and broad hats with face-shadowing brims were the height of fashion in the early years of the decade gradually shrinking to smaller hats with flat brims. By the beginning of the 1900s Makeup Era women sought after a pale look. 1The Vingle consisting of four partings forming V shapes.

The hair would most likely be padded with rats to give it the structure and bulk needed. The first bob hit the scene in 1920 when it was worn by actresses Louise Brooks Clara Bow and Colleen Moore and were the cause for the wide spread bobbed craze across the country. Vintage Hairstyles 1909 - 1914 Pre World War I Hairstyle.

During the First World War clothes offer abundant evidence of the changes in class structures and womens roles. Because everything was scarce women had to be creative and resourceful. At the end of World War I womens fashion resulted in comfort and convenience.