56 indie stylist Volume 1 Issue 4
the throwback
The bouffant became popular in the
early 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline
Kennedy rocked the style, and the look
was widely imitated. By the mid-1960s,
women and girls around the world were
wearing some form of the big do, which
in one variation or another remained
fashionable until the early 1970s.
Hair at the crown was lifted
by backcombing to create a pile of
loosely knotted hair on the top and
upper sides of the head. Unteased bangs
were swept to the side to give a smooth,
sleek look, and the ends of the outer
hair would be combed, cut, curled,
or flipped in many distinctive ways.
The Bouffant
Big hair of the early 1960s meant serious
backcombing and lots of hairspray
by Mary Barthelme Abel
