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Girls' Hair Bow Country Trends: United States--Chronology

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Figure 1.-- This studio portait shows an unidentified American girl and her brother. They look to be about 8-11 years old. The girl has a huge colored hairbow, actually there appears to be twin bows. Twin bows were popular in the 1900s, but not large bow like the ones here. The portrait is undated, but the clothes and mount suggest the early-1910s to us. The studio was DeGuire in Winona, Minnesota.
We are still working on the chronology of American hair bows. They seemed most prevalent in the 1900s-20s, especially the 1910s. The White girls in 1910 illustrate this trend. All the girls except the baby sport large hair bows. There are countless images of girls wearing hair bows, especially around the turn-of-the 20th century. The girls in the Maryland class here are a good example (figure 1). Many of the girls have hair bows, but notice that they are mostly rather than small bows. They continued to be popular during throughout the early-20th century. We have little information about the early-19th century, but with the advent of photography we have increasingly detailed information as the photographic record expands. information beginning in the mid-19th century and that informtion only increases each decade with the expansion of the photographic industry. Hair bows for American girls seem especially popular and particularly large in the early-20th century. The peak of popularity and size was the 1910s. Hairbows have never disappeared, but as far as we can tell, the 1910s was the peak of popularity in both size and prevalence.






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