Kōrero: Personal grooming

Urbane sophisticate, 1969 (2 o 4)

Urbane sophisticate, 1969

Alongside the standard short styles and new loose, hippie styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s was an urbane, sophisticated hairstyle, best remembered in its later, disco variation. It is seen here in an advertisement for menswear featuring the ‘Romeo’, a tight satin shirt with full sleeves, unbuttoned down the chest and worn with a scarf. Although the hairstyle was reasonably common, New Zealand men rarely wore such clothing with it.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1969/5223

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Bronwyn Dalley, 'Personal grooming - Men’s hair', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38745/urbane-sophisticate-1969 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Bronwyn Dalley, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013