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It is the early-20 century that hair bows were most common and most prominant. We do know that girls were wearing hair bows by the turn of the 20th century. Suddenly girls seem to have launched an uncontrolled arms race as to who could have the largest hair bow. Girls of all ages wore them, even older teens. They seemed to have stopped wearing them about the age of 20-21 years. This we are still assessing. We do not see married women weaing themm, even younger married women. We had thought that this style was especially popular in the 1890s with many girls wearing hair bows, but we see even more in the early-20th century. This seems to have been the case in America for which we have a substantial photographic archive. White hair bows were especially popular, but they were also done in many colors. The American girls here, imcluding many teenagers, wear colored hairbows, we think in the 1900s (figure 1). Often girls wore white hairbows with white dresses. Here the girls wear colored hair bows with white dresses. We see huge hair bows in America during both the 1900s and 1910s. We are still working on European trends. we see a lot of hair bows in Europe duting the erly-1900s, but do not have the country trends ell worked out yet.
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