Figure 1.--This Chicago boy had his photographed taken with bang side flares probbaly in the early 1920s.

Boys' Bangs Styles: Side Flare

Many boys with bangs had hair that ws short or fell straigt down at the sides. Some mothers sytled the side hair. Less elaborate and somewhat more common than the side roll, was bangs styled at the side wuith a kind of flare. With this style the hair was still cut short at the sides, well above the ears. We have seen quite a few images in the 1910s and 20s with this style. It was astyle for younger boys although it was not gender specific. Younger girls with short hair might also have their hair styles like this. There were different ways of doing the side flares. The boy here had the side flares donr inwards. We have seen other boys with the sides flaring out. We have noted this style primarily in America. Unfortunately we do not know what contemprary mthers and hair stylists called this style.

May Fairchild

An American artist painted a boy with a very similar hair style. We know little about May Fairchild except that she was American and her dates, 1872-1959. The only thing else we know about her is that she produced some charming portraits of children. The image here of a toddler looks to have been painted in the 1920s or early 30s. All we know about the boy was that his name was Albert Cary. He wears a blue one-piece outfit with large buttons and a ruffled collar and sleeve trim. Note his marvelous stuffed dog.

France

While HBC is not sure of the correct English-language term for this hair style. A French reader reports that in France, the hair style here would be described as " Coupe au carré avec un cran de chaque coté ". He tells us, "it is rather long to say, but well comprehensible for us. It means a puffed wave. In French we have a verb to say, make a cran. "Un cran" = crimp or a wave. "Cranter" = to make a crimp or a wave or to crimp. You are using the term "flare" instead of crimp or wave. In this way, one could say : " coupe au carré avec les cheveux gonflés de chaque coté ", and wouldn't mean the hair are waved but rather puffed.








Christopher Wagner







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