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The svelte styles of the nineteen forties required a lot of crimping and rolling to get the smooth waves and page boy styling that was common in that period. Women didn’t have either the time or the money to be overly concerned with fashion as there was a World War taking place. During the nineteen forties hairstyles tended to last longer than a season, and for most women the pageboy styling took a lot of work.

Women were in the factories doing men’s jobs because men were at war. During the day when many women were working with heavy machinery the only safe hairstyle was pinned up and covered with a turban. Turbans became common among the women who worked in the munitions factories, while they were utilitarian in nature, it wasn’t long before stars like Heddy Lamarr were making the everyday turban into something jewelled and stylish.

One of the reasons that the nineteen forties pageboy was so popular was because many women tired of having their hair hidden from sight for most of the day and couldn’t wait to take off their turbans and let their hair swing freely in the evenings. Veronica Lake epitomised the pageboy look with her hair falling naturally over to one side and became a nineteen forties style icon.