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Anyone can pick out a crew cut from a fro, but what about a quiff from a bouffant? How well do you know your hairdos? Can you pick out the word, or words that best describe those in our latest lunchtime quiz?
David, you get major points in my book for having Devilock be one of the choices in your quiz.
posted by ArtF on 8-22-2008 at 10:50 am
I could’ve sent you a way more believable mullet picture. Apparently it hasn’t gone out of style in rural OK for about 30 years.
posted by adrienne on 8-22-2008 at 10:51 am
I have to disagree with the “shag” photo of Jennifer Aniston. I had a shag in the 70’s, as did many people I knew. It was a much shorter cut with a longer fringe in the back. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I would never call the cut in the photo a shag.
posted by bre on 8-22-2008 at 11:12 am
I disagree with the Audrey Hepburn picture. Even in that image, you can tell she has a ponytail. Halle Berry’s short hair was a pixie cut.
posted by Christina on 8-22-2008 at 12:08 pm
mmmmmm…Audrey Hepburn. She could sport a mullet and still look like a vision from heaven.
posted by Johnny Cat on 8-22-2008 at 2:02 pm
Ditto on the pixie cut; I’ve been sporting one for years, and it’s pretty obvious that Hepburn, although she’s associated with the cut, DEFINITELY DOES NOT have one in that photo: her hair’s at least 3 inches long on the sides, and obviously pulled into a much longer ponytail.
Why not go with Jean Seberg?
posted by Christine on 8-22-2008 at 2:55 pm
I LOVE the marcel..didn’t get that one right but I really wish people still did theri hair that way. So classy.
posted by Caitlin on 8-22-2008 at 3:00 pm
The Jennifer Aniston “do” is not a shag. Its a Rachel. A shag is the David Cassidy thing from the Partridge Family, or the Jane Fonda thing from Klute.
Also a pixie is what Mia Farrow used to sport.
posted by PJMoore on 8-22-2008 at 3:06 pm
I disagree with the Marcel one, I believe it to be fingerwaves. :P
Captcha: East Uppercut
posted by CourtC777 on 8-23-2008 at 10:03 pm