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Picture No 10847584
Date 1919
Description The Origin of the Bob by William Heath Robinson
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- And the first realisation of its advantages. A lady struggling to maintain her hair style while on board a board, looks with envy at a deck's mop and its unmoving head. Heath Robinson suggests that herein lies the origin of the popular bobbed hair styles of the 1920s.
Source Illustration by William Heath Robinson in The Bystander, 1 October 1919
Credit ILN / Mary Evans Picture Library
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