History Main / TwentiesBobHairCut

* ''LightNovel/TaishoBaseballGirls'' takes place in 1925. The main lead Akiko has her hair in a bob.

** Millie bobs her hair as part of her MakeoverMontage. Other things she does include getting a new shorter dress and a NiceHat, and trying to invoke PetitePride as her silhouette is not perfect for the year 1922.

* A plot point in the ''Literature/TommyAndTuppence'' story "The Sunningdale Mystery" - Tuppence points out that a woman with bobbed hair is unlikely to have [[CombatHaircomb stabbed a man with a hatpin]] [[spoiler: and later extends this to concluding that the murderer was a man trying to frame her]].

* ''{{Film/Sirens}}'' uses this trope in an odd way. The protagonist Estella wears her hair like this in contrast to the RapunzelHair of Norman Lindsey's models. As she's quite repressed, the haircut serves as an indicator that she wants to break out of that.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the bob is featured on some female characters as part of the FarEast meets TheRoaringTwenties setting. One of Tahno's {{Fangirl}}s [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30700000/Tahno-avatar-the-legend-of-korra-30737137-340-340.png wears the style]], while young Jinora [[CultureChopSuey combines]] it with a PrimAndProperBun. Korra cuts her hair into a messy bob in the final season. Opal has a bob as well. A scene that featured the three of them in a row led to the FanNickname "The Bob Squad".

* F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bernice_Bobs_Her_Hair "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"]], from 1920. The idea of a girl wanting to bob her hair makes her very attractive to the boys in town.

Bobbed hair continued to be a trend in [[TheThirties the 1930s]], although the sleek shingles and Eton crops were pushed aside in favour of more feminine styles such as pin curls and Marcel/finger waves, which then be replaced by updos and pageboy bobs by the end of the decade. One simple way to distinguish 1920s and 1930s hairstyles is that 1920s hairstyles focused on sleek and masculine, while 1930s hairstyles focused on wavy and feminine.

[[caption-width-right:350: Different styles, same cut.[softreturn] [[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]Creator/LouiseBrooks, Creator/ClaraBow, Creator/JosephineBaker, and Creator/JoanCrawford [[/labelnote]]]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress "Mummy in the Orient Express"]]: Clara averts the ChangedMyJumper trope by dressing in TheFlapper bob cut, GorgeousPeriodDress and a BeautySpot. All this for a guy she's supposedly breaking up with. (This also crosses over with SciFiBobHaircut because she's on a replica of the '20s Orient Express built in the far future.)

[[caption-width-right:350: Different styles, same cut.\\
[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]Creator/LouiseBrooks, Creator/ClaraBow, Creator/JosephineBaker, and Creator/JoanCrawford [[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Different styles, same cut.[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]Creator/LouiseBrooks, Creator/ClaraBow, Creator/JosephineBaker, and Creator/JoanCrawford [[/labelnote]]]]

* ''Series/JupitersLegacy'': Grace had this style in the past, starting during 1929.

** Roxie Hart has a curly blond bob cut. People start copying her, even the prison guard Mama Morton. She would love to become a famous star.

** Velma Kelly, a Vaudeville star, has beautiful raven black hair and she wears the slick version.

* A plot point in the ''Literature/TommyAndTuppence'' story "The Sunningdale Mystery" - Tuppence points out that a woman with bobbed hair is unlikely to have stabbed a man with a hatpin [[spoiler: and later extends this to concluding that the murderer was a man trying to frame her]].

* ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': Sappho and Helene sport these as a sign the film is set in 1926, with Sappho's being closer to a modern hairstyle of the two (although both are period-appropriate).

* ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': Sappho and Helene sport these, with Sappho's being closer to a modern hairstyle.

* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'':

* In ''Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum'' by author/illustrator [=Meghan McCarthy=], a mother and daughter with 1920s bobbed haircuts are shown on one page [[BubblegumPopping blowing bubble gum bubbles]]. Justified since bubble gum was invented in 1928 and the scene is [[DidTheResearch intended as a historical depiction]].

If you want the audience to quickly place the timeframe that a work takes place in, the easiest way is to sprinkle it with the aesthetic that the timeframe is famous for. In the case of TheRoaringTwenties, few things are as iconic as TheFlapper, and all flappers (at least, according to Hollywood) have bobbed hair, whether the Creator/LouiseBrooks shingle kind, the Creator/JosephineBaker Eton crop kind, the Creator/ClaraBow QuirkyCurls kind, or the femme, wavy Creator/JoanCrawford kind.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'': Blondie, who was a flapper before marrying Dagwood, is known for her wavy bob, which she still wears to this day.

%% * Classic comic strip character Ella Cinders is ''adorable'' in her bob haircut.

** Tiana from has this hairstyle during her IWantSong and is used to set the timeframe of the film as the twenties.
** Lottie the richest girl in town has a bob too, though hers appears long enough to tie into an updo.

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', as befitting its setting in 1920's New York City, features the Goldstein sisters, who have two different takes on this hairstyle. The more straight-laced brunette Tina wears her hair in a straight bob, while bubbly blonde Queenie has a bob full of curls.

%% * ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'': Blondie is known for her wavy bob, which she still wears to this day.

* Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker wear their hair like that in the 2013 [[Film/TheGreatGatsby film adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby.''

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': Ivy's haircut is supposed to be visual shorthand for her post-secondary, pro-feminist education and behavior. And she's definitely [[TheFlapper a flapper.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E8RarityTakesManehattan "Rarity Takes Manehattan"]] has Coco Pommel, the Manehattan stylist. Justified in that she's a reference to Coco Chanel.