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We have noted a few examples of boys during the lste-1910s and early-20s wearing a kind of front hair tuft, usually cut like bangs. The boys essentially had copped hair, but a little bit of hair grown out at the front just above the forehead. The hair here has been allowed to grow. This was not a common style, but we noticed it often enough to know that it was not an aberant style either. A number of boys, mostly younger primary school boys, had their hair cut this way. German boys in the late-19th century and early-20th century commonly wore cropped hair. This is very obvious from the photographic record. Large number of German boys in the early-20th century had cropped hair. The cropped hair style was so ingrained over so long a time that many German parents apparently did not feel comfortable in allowing boys to grow out their hair. We are not entirely sure why German hair fashions changed at this time. We believe that World war I was a major reason. Jusdt letting boys grow a little patch of hair at the front probably gave even conservstive parents the chance to adjust to the changing styles. As far as we know, the change was primarily the result of changing parental thinking. We do not know to what extent the boys werre involved in the changing hair style conventions. We do not know what the proper name for this style was, either in German or English. We have only noticed this style in Germany. We are not sure that it was only a German style, but as far as we can tell, it seems to be. Most of the images we have found are from a relatively short period from the late-10s to the early-20s. It appears to have been a transitional style between the cropped hair commonly worn in the 1910s and the combed hair styles of the 1930s. Perhasps our German readers will know more about this hair cut style.
We have noted a few examples of boys during the lste-1910s and early-20s wearing a kind of front hair tuft, usually cut like bangs. We see several examples of this style, although for a relatively short period.
This was not a common style, but we noticed it often enough to know that it was not an aberant style either.
The boys essentially had copped hair, but a little bit of hair grown out at the front just above the forehead. The hair here has been allowed to grow. The width varied. Some times it just covered the center of the forehead. And it did not extend very far back from the forehead.
We do not know what the proper name for this style was, either in German or English. 'Hair tuft" seems a reasonable decription until we find a better desciption. A German reader tells us, "A literal translation would be Haarbüschel but this doesn't fit here. We probably would more describe it than name it like cropped hair with longish bangs, etc. A German reader suggests, "kurzes Haar mit langem Pony". That would mean, short hair with long bangs. We welcome German readers to comment here.
A number of boys, mostly younger primary school boys, had their hair cut this way. We have not noted any teenagers with this hair cut. The examplds we have found seem to be boys 10-years and younger.
German boys in the late-19th century and early-20th century commonly wore cropped hair. This is very obvious from the photographic record. Large number of German boys in the early-20th century had cropped hair. The cropped hair style was so ingrained over so long a time that many German parents apparently did not feel comfortable in allowing boys to grow out their hair. Just letting boys grow a little patch of hair at the front probably gave even conservative parents the chance to adjust to the changing styles. This did not take long and as a result by the mid-20s we no konger see these hair tufts. Most of the images we have found are from this relatively short period from the late-10s to the early-20s. It appears to have been a transitional style between the cropped hair commonly worn in the 1910s and the combed hairstyles of the 1920s.
We are not entirely sure why German hair fashions changed at this time. We believe that World War I was a major reason. Cropped hair was a style associated with the military. And the Germany Army was the most prestigious institution in Imperial Germany. It was essentially the Prussian Army in a series of wars culminating in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) that united Germany and created the German Empire. The horrors of World War I affected the public view of the militarty. This thus probably affected fashions and styles associated with the Army. (Interestingly, sailor suits continued to be popular.) We think other factors were at play here because we begin to see the hair tufts even before Germany lost the War.
As far as we know, the change was primarily the result of changing parental thinking. We do not know to what extent the boys werre involved in the changing hair style conventions.
We have only noticed this style in Germany. We are not sure that it was only a German style, but as far as we can tell, it seems to be.
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