Figure 1.--Bangs were a popular hair style for primary-age boys. The style seems to have been especially popular in Soviet times after cropped hair became the dominant style. Here we see a Soviet (Russian) school children, we think about 1960. Bangs were very popular at the time and still are in Russia. Mother would have done the hair cutting. Also notice how the children were trained to hold their hands, a leel of siscipline not seen in Western schools.

There are also significant differences among countries. Here a factor was geoography and immigration. A country like Japan which have few immigrants meant that children mostly had the same type of hair, this tended to mean that there was not a variety of styles. The United States, on the other hand, is a country of immgrants so we have children with all kinds of diiferent hair types, meaning different styles. Another factir is economic development. In the 19th century there were few schools outside of Europe and North America. Many children did not go to schools. In Aftrica and Asia there wre few schools. In Latin Anerica there were more schoolsm but large numbers of children did not attend school. This only began to change in the 20th century, especially the second half of the 20th century. Both factors affected coyntry trends overall as well as specificaslly school hair styles. We only have a few country hair pages at this time, including: America, England, France, Germany, and Japan. We only have a page on Russian girls.

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