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Big hair, 1911

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Big hair, 1911

New Zealanders’ hairstyles followed those of Britain and the United States. Miss Lindsay, photographed in 1911, is wearing a version of the ‘Gibson-Girl’ style then fashionable in the United States.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

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How to cite this page

Bronwyn Dalley, Personal grooming – Women’s hair, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38735/big-hair-1911 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Dalley, published 9 November 2012.