Figure 1.--This boy from Globe, Arizona was photographed with his mother in 1919. Hecwears a very severe bangs cut. Note how the straight forehead cut and the connection with ythe hair at the side is very sharp. Note the coastal backdrop, even though Globe is located in Aruzona, an inland state.

Bangs were an enormously popular style for both boys and girls and we see them done in many different styles. We note many different styles of bangs, but we are not sure about the terms for the different cuts, or in fact if there were proper names for the cuts. Some of the terms we have found are not always a definitive style and have been used variously. Ringlet curl cuts might have front bangs. Many short hair styles were worn with bangs. A popular style in the early-20th century was Dutch-boy bangs with hair at the side down to the ears. A good example here is Floyd Van Horne about 1915. There were many different ways of cutting the bangs. Some were severely cut, straight across the forehead. Othereswere more molded to the shape of the child's head and cut in a kind of curve. There were also different ways of conecting the bangs cur on the forehead to the hair at the suide of the head. In contrast to the more severe bangs cuts, we note much more informal, even shaggy cuts. The rather shaggy bangs of a young John F. Kennedy Jr, in the early 1960s also had an impact on boys' hair styling. When longer hair became popular, we see many boys with page boy cuts.

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