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.
Examples:
- The Simpsons: Marge Simpson is the modern queen of the beehive.
- Ricki Lake sports this style in Hairspray.
- 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 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.
- Sarah Palin.
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: "Suddenly, [she's] Miss Beehive, 1963..."
- Turned up often enough in the original Star Trek, it's been speculated it 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.
- Real Life singer Amy Winehouse has famously sported a hairdo that is an adaptation of the beehive.
