Nothing defines a person like their hairstyle - and what a century it has been for hair! Bangs, bobs, buns, beehives and bouffants have vied with pixie cuts, pin curls, perms and pageboys for ascendancy in an ever-changing parade of ladies' looks and trends, and amongst the men we've seen caesers, comb overs, ducktails, faux hawks, flattops, quiffs and slick backs. From the Edwardian era through the seismic changes of the 1920s and '60s, and including every quirky twist hair history took on its way to the turn of the millennium, this book is a lush visual survey of a hundred years of hairstyles.

Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, Vice-Chair of the European Popular Culture Association, and Principal Editor of the refereed journal Film, Fashion & Consumption. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, and heritage over the last 25 years. Her books include Dirty Looks: Women, Power, Pornography (BFI, 1993), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998, with John Hill), Fashion Cultures (2001, with Stella Bruzzi), More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography (BFI, 2004), Fashion and Celebrity Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations, Analysis (2013).