Haircults: Fifty Years of Styles and Cuts

Haircults: Fifty Years of Styles and Cuts by Jones, Dylan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780500275689.

Here is the only published history of the style wars of hair...a flamboyant look at trends in tresses, from Londons Soho to New Yorks Soho, form teh beehive to the bob, the ponytail to punk... Haircuts and styles since the 1940s...male and female, American and European...have surpassed those of any previous period in their capacity to carry a message from their bearer to the rest of the world. This book is a history and a celebration of the haircut and its attendant cults. Haircult documents a time when cut and style have become accessories with iconic status. Author Dylan Joness incisive comments accompanied by illustrations from the worlds of film, music and street life, reveal a kaleidoscope of style and counter-style.