Figure 1.--I'm not sure just how to date this image, but would guess the the early 1900s. The photograph was taken in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Notice how the boy is holding on to the belt of his tunic.
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Figure 1.--I'm not sure just how to date this image, but would guess the the early 1900s. The photograph was taken in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Notice how the boy is holding on to the belt of his tunic. |
The page boy cut was based on the hair style of Medieval pages at royal courts. I'm not positive that this was a style worn just by the pages or rather was the adult male style of the day. The page boy cut had bangs at the front and carefully styled hair over the ears. It was worn by boys in the late 19th, but was more popular in the early 20th century. It was not, however, a major style worn by large numbers of boys. By the 1920s only a small mumber of younger boys wore page boy cuts. There was a revival in the 1970s when American boys began wearing longer hair. It was not, however, one of the major styles of the 70s.
The page boy cut had bangs at the front and carefully styled hair over the ears. It was not a very long cut, however, as the hair did not fall to the shoulders.
Page boy hair cuts have been worn in different historical periods.
The page boy cut was based on the hair style of Medieval pages at royal courts. A page was a boy servant or attendant. He was of nobel birth serving kings or other high ranking aristocrats and in the process learning the ritual and skills of the court. The page always attended someone of rank, often as part of the process of becoming a knight. I'm not positive that what we call the page boy cut is a style worn just by the pages or rather was the adult male style of the day. The page boy style is also referred to as the Prince Valliant cut after the meddieval comic strip character.
It was worn by boys in the late 19th, but was more popular in the early 20th century. Using the relative appearance of page boy cuts in available photographic images, only a very small number of boys wore page boy cuts at the turn of the century. It was not a major style worn by large numbers of boys. By the 1920s only a small mumber of younger boys wore page boy cuts.
There was a revival in the 1970s when American boys began wearing longer hair. It was not, however, one of the major styles of the 70s. Many of the boys wearing long hair did not want to keep it as carefully styled as a page boy.
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