Fashion: Hair

In addition to 90’s fashion, we will conclude this fashion week by discussing the hair fashion of the nineties.

Men: Men's hair became increasingly shorter from the early 1990s onwards. In the early 90s curtained hair (sometimes dyed blond) and small ponytails were popular among yuppies. Side-partings were briefly popular in the mid-1990s before head-shaving had become an acceptable way of dealing with male pattern baldness. In the late 1990s variants of the quiff became popular among young professional men. Dark haired men dyed their spikes blonde and some tended to have wavy blonde streaks - this trend continued towards mid-2000s, namely until 2004 where they started to go back to their natural dark hair.

Woman: Women's hair changed from the teased curls popular in the late 1970s to late 1980s to straight, smooth hair, which was a revival of late 1960s hairstyles gradually between 1989 and 1995. The pixie cut and Rachel haircut which resembled elements of the Marlo Thomas haircut on the tv show That Girl, inspired the haircut worn by a character from the TV show Friends, were popular among women in as early as 1995. Straight hair was also styled with a short fringe cut just above the eyebrows, known as a “hime cut”, and those with Afro-styled or naturally curly hair would rely on a Relaxer to keep the sleek straight hair. In the mid-1990s this style went out fashion until its revival in the late-2000s. Dark-haired women tended to dye their hair a lighter color (with highlights and lowlights) with blonde streaks (popularized by Jennifer Anniston) - this trend continued until mid-2000s.

Youth: For teenagers longer hair was popular in the early to mid-1990s, including collar-length curtained hair, shaggy surfer hair popular among some Britpop fans, and dreadlocks. This changed in the mid-1990s when the much-ridiculed bowl cut became a fad among skaters, while hip-hop fans wore a variant of the flattop known as the Hi-top fade. In the late 1990s hair was usually buzzed very short for an athletic look although a few grunge fans grew their hair long in reaction to this. Headbands and scrunchies of various styles and colors were popular with girls throughout most of the 1990s who frequently wore them with side ponytails and bangs

This was all on 90’s fashion, next week we will go over Playground Fads of the nineties!

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