The
Beehive Hairdo is a women's hairstyle in fashion from about the 1940's through the 1960's, in which long hair is piled high above the head and cemented with plenty of hairspray. A few elderly women could be seen sporting the beehive into the 1990's, at which point it became more of a gag and/or trope hairstyle than anything
real.
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Examples
Comics
- Many panels of The Far Side featured one or more beehive-coiffed beauties.
- Night Girl of the Legion of Substitute Heroes wore a beehive hairdo for years... and has sported it in most of her modern appearances as well, as it's apparently now considered her iconic look.
- Susan Storm of the Fantastic Four has worn a beehive at various points. (There is a "The horribly hairstyles of Susan Storm" page somewhere...)
Films
- Ricki Lake sports this style in Hairspray.
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: "Suddenly, [she's] Miss Beehive, 1963..."
- The Bride of Frankenstein has an infamous version of a beehive.
Literature
- Susan Sto Helit sported one when she was being Death's granddaughter (as opposed to Governess Susan) in the Sky One Live Action Adaptation of Hogfather. Based on the painting by Paul Kidby which has her with more of an afro, which in turn is based on the description in Soul Music of her hair resembling a dandelion clock.
Live Action TV
- Turned up often enough in the original Star Trek. It's been speculated that (like many, many other parts of the show) was a case of Author Appeal with Gene Roddenberry.
- Brought back from the dead by Joan Holloway and her startlingly-red updo in Mad Men, which is after all set in the very early 60s.
- Vlad, the Divine Executioner, from Lexx had such a hairdo... about a foot-and-a-half high.
- When beehives appear in MST 3 K movies, one of the gang will probably make buzzing noises at least once.
Music
- The two female members of the Alternative/New Wave band The B52s usually sport a pair of beehives. It's where the band's name came from, after all.
Video Games
Western Animation
- The Simpsons: Marge Simpson is the modern queen of the beehive.
Real Life
- Singer Amy Winehouse has famously sported a hairdo that is an adaptation of the beehive. Specifically, a beehive whose bees were wiped out by some sort of plague and has fallen into severe disrepair.
