History Main / TwentiesBobHairCut

->''"Cut off all of your hair''\\
''Did you flinch, did you care?''\\
''Did he look, did he stop and stare''\\
''At your brand new hair?"''

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 Irene Castle windswept kind, the Creator/LouiseBrooks shingle kind, the Creator/JosephineBaker Eton crop kind, the Creator/ClaraBow QuirkyCurls kind, or the femme, wavy Creator/JoanCrawford kind.

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 from 1930s hairstyles is that the former focused on sleek and masculine, the latter on wavy and feminine.

* Fiore from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', a series set in TheRoaringTwenties. Flashbacks show that Rosette had a bob as a young teen too, before she grew her hair longer.

* ''Film/CuttingItShort'', a Czech film from TheEighties directed by Jiří Menzel, [[FilmOfTheBook based on a novella of the same name]] by Creator/BohumilHrabal. Maryshka is a young wife of a local brewery manager. She's extremely lively and spirited, completely unashamed to publicly do things which others only think or do in private. She has gorgeous long honey blond hair, wavy and thick. Her hair is admired by the whole town and they compare it to its memorable sights. At the end of the movie, she decides to have her hair cut like Josephine Baker. [[note]] It's an anachronism as the film is explicitly set in 1918 when Ms Baker was only 13 years old.[[/note]] This is the last straw for her husband who [[KinkySpanking spanks her]] in front of a board of directors of the brewery.

* It's a wig, but Haley in ''Series/ModernFamily'' dons a platinum-blonde one in this style for her grandpa Frank (Phil's dad)'s wedding, themed on TheRoaringTwenties.

* Journalist Tae Asakura from ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' and ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'' has bobbed hair. The game is set in Japan in TheRoaringTwenties and she considers herself a "modern woman", to the point where her pen name "Kichou Asakura" is an in-universe tribute to pioneering feminist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raicho_Hiratsuka Raicho Hiratsuka]].

* 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.

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

* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'': Blondie, who was a flapper before marrying Dagwood, is known for her early 30s-style curly bob, which she still wears to this day.

* ''Cutting It Short'', a Czech film from TheEighties directed by Jiří Menzel, [[FilmOfTheBook based on a novella of the same name]] by Creator/BohumilHrabal. Maryshka is a young wife of a local brewery manager. She's extremely lively and spirited, completely unashamed to publicly do things which others only think or do in private. She has gorgeous long honey blond hair, wavy and thick. Her hair is admired by the whole town and they compare it to its memorable sights. At the end of the movie, she decides to have her hair cut like Josephine Baker. [[note]] It's an anachronism as the film is explicitly set in 1918 when Ms Baker was only 13 years old.[[/note]] This is the last straw for her husband who [[KinkySpanking spanks her]] in front of a board of directors of the brewery.

* ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'' has femme fatale Ardala. Even the short-lived 1970's revival of the comic strip, which generally tried [[TotallyRadical waaaaaay too hard]] [[WereStillRelevantDammit to be contemporary,]] still let her keep her iconic haircut. The [[{{Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury}} TV series]] [[SeventiesHair did not,]] though.