Hairstyles in country Australia 1927
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382412)
Rockingham, Australia
January 10, 2022 6:51am CST
My mother kept a diary throughout her married life. It isn’t a journal of private thoughts but more a record of day-to-day life and all that was happening around her and the family.
I found this photo in one of the diaries. On the back, someone has hand-written ‘taken about October 1927’. It looks like my mother’s writing. The photo is of my father’s class. My father was born in 1914 so would have been 13. He is in the back row, on the right next to the teacher.
I found the hairstyles interesting. There seems to be a few basin cuts among the pupils. If you haven’t heard the term, a basin cut is when a basin is placed upside down on the head and the hair cut all the way round the basin. In those days, most children’s haircuts would have been done at home by a parent.
I've already found a couple of letters that I wrote home. I wonder what other treasures await me.
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@Juliaacv (56374)
• Canada
10 Jan 22
My mother used to keep my hair very short, and I had a 'basin cut' as you call it until I was about 10 years old.
With being the only girl out of 4 children, you would have thought that she would have liked my hair to be worn long, but that was not the case.
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@DaddyEvil (174657)
• United States
10 Jan 22
I kept Pretty's hair long until her mom kidnapped her when she was 12 and had it cut off.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 22
@DaddyEvil Does Pretty wear her hair long now?
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@DaddyEvil (174657)
• United States
10 Jan 22
We called those "bowl cuts" when I was a kid fifty years ago. 
My friends thought I was lucky because dad was a barber in his twenties and always cut our hair. I hated it because dad always scalped us. After my dad passed away, I refused to get my hair cut. It was down my back before I finally went and got it cut again.
My friends thought I was lucky because dad was a barber in his twenties and always cut our hair. I hated it because dad always scalped us. After my dad passed away, I refused to get my hair cut. It was down my back before I finally went and got it cut again.4 people like this
@DaddyEvil (174657)
• United States
10 Jan 22
@JudyEv No. My hair is really curly. I used to have a mullet. It reached to my butt when wet but pulled up to my shoulder blades as it dried.
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@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
11 Jan 22
Sounds like the old times. Hehehe.
We call it coconut husk cut.
Photo is not mine.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 22
Both the hair and clothing styles really don't look any different from those in Canada 1959, other than the male teacher. He looked to be a dandy.
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 22
@JudyEv Most likely they all did.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jan 22
I've heard of basin cuts. It looks like a few of the pupils weren't too happy about getting their picture taken. I take it, it is assorted ages and classes in this picture with the oldest in back. Your father was a handsome young man.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 22
Thanks. I think the adults are the teacher and his wife and between them, they taught all ages. Sometimes children started school very young so that the community could keep the school open. If numbers dropped too much, the school would be closed.
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
10 Jan 22
What a cool picture. I love going through old photos. We call the basin cuts "bowl cuts" here in the US Keep us posted as to what you find!
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Jan 22
@LindaOHio It becomes a real problem. I am summarising Mum's diaries but no-one will even see the summaries. The computer files will probably all be deleted without being read. 
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
11 Jan 22
@JudyEv We have the same problem. We have about a dozen binders of photos. There's no one to give them to if we go. :-(
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 Jan 22
great photo - can you imagine what someone from 1800 would say to the hairsytles of 1927?
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 22
@DocAndersen And older ladies were called the 'blue rinse set' as they'd have a blue rinse put through greying locks. 
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 Jan 22
@JudyEv yes the rise of purple hair in the 1980s!
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@Tampa_girl7 (54730)
• United States
10 Jan 22
When I was a child those haircuts returned. We called them bowl haircuts.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54730)
• United States
12 Jan 22
@JudyEv I’m even thinking there’s a picture of me with one.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 22
@Tampa_girl7 You might have to go looking for it!
@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jan 22
Called bowl cuts here and many of the Amish kids have those types of hair cuts.
I am sure you are enjoying going through your moms memories
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@wolfgirl569 (135966)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jan 22
@JudyEv Yes they do but you almost never see it. They keep it covered even in the summer. You can tell its long by how they have it wound up on their heads.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 22
@wolfgirl569 Sikh men don't cut their hair either and have to wind it round their heads.
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@Marilynda1225 (91155)
• United States
10 Jan 22
I'm laughing more at the scowls on the faces of the kids. None of them looked very happy to be in the picture. I don't think I ever had one of those basin cuts but maybe my moms generation did. Finding those old pictures definitely is a treasure.
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@Marilynda1225 (91155)
• United States
11 Jan 22
@JudyEv your dad does have a nice smile he looks like a happy kid in that picture
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@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Jan 22
Where is there? Here, it's usually referred to as a bowl cut. But they all turn out looking the same, don't they?
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Jan 22
@BarBaraPrz Someone else mentioned bowl cut.
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@Virtually2021 (828)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
10 Jan 22
Wow, that's really amazing.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Jan 22
I do hope to have a child like you that appreciates and treasures the photos I have loved and saved. So many no longer care it seems. I think it's so nice to have a glimpse of our parents in the past.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
14 Jan 22
@JudyEv my 2 girls love photos too but this one , even though she loves them don't seem to have much luck keeping/ taking care of things.
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@Aquitaine24 (12000)
• San Jose, California
11 Jan 22
The woman almost looks to be from the hippie era.
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@Aquitaine24 (12000)
• San Jose, California
11 Jan 22
@JudyEv I think some of the people who were around in the 1920s enjoyed the hippie era though.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 22
@Aquitaine24 Perhaps they did. Or was that the 'flapper' era?
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@Fleura (35092)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 22
Yep, hairstyles here were pretty similar. My mother (born 1924) and my aunt (born 1922) both looked a lot like the person on the front row, second from left (more like my aunt, because she's smiling - my mother was always the one scowling )
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
11 Jan 22
So nice reminiscing traveling through memory lane.
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@JudyEv (382412)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 22
@oahuwriter My mother loved all flowers. I'm not sure she had a favourite.
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
11 Jan 22
@JudyEv
I go down memory lane too. My Mother's birthday is this month, so I'll be going down memory lane again. I'm hoping to find purple tulips for her. Tulips was her favorite.
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