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These Fabulous Facts About Flappers Prove they Made the 20s Roar

1920s - Roaring Twenties

12. Their Short Hairstyles Were Called “Bobs”

A women getting her hair cut into the infamous 1920s ‘bob’. Pinterest.

The haircut that we now refer to as a “bob,” in which the hair is cut evenly at about the ears, got its name during the Roarin’ Twenties, as the flappers popularized it. Possibly because flappers were more androgynous than Victorian women, the haircuts became known as bobs.

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