Figure 1.-- We have no details on the portrait here. It looks to us to have been taken about 1910. The children all look like boys, but this is just a guess. Two boys are dressed identically. The three older boys all have bangs, although one of the children looks to have had his hair curled at the side. The youngest child looks to have chouptte, suggesting that the child is a boy.

A French Canadian reader tells us, "About bang, it was called "page boy" in Canada . Even in Québec, the English term was used without translation. I found some boys with such a hair in 1973 but really longer." The pageboy is bangs with long hear at the sides covering the ears. This is of course just one of the ways in which bangs can be dome. There are two basic variables here. First is how and what length the forehead hair is cut and arranged. The other basic variable is jow the hair at the side is cut and arranged. The bangs or fringe as they are often called in England is just the front hair combed down over the forehead. Bangs styles, hoever, include how the hair at the side is cut. As far as we can tell. the Casnadian bangs' styles were essentiaslly the same as those in America and followed the same chronological trends as those in America. We have no details on the portrait here, other than it is Canadian. It looks to us to have been taken about 1910. The children all look like boys, but this is just a guess. Two boys are dressed identically. The three older boys all have bangs, although one of the children looks to have had his hair curled at the side. The youngest child looks to have chouptte, suggesting that the child is a boy.

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