I love looking at vintage yearbooks and getting inspired by what I see. The hairstyles, the clothes, the names! So much fun to browse what school life was like, what clubs were there, what they said about each other in the descriptions and so much more!

For today’s post, I want to showcase some of the amazing vintage hairstyles (for women and men) seen in North Carolina Yearbooks (because there is an amazing online collection of vintage yearbooks to look at) from the 1920s-1950s.

Let’s take a look!

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Vintage Hairstyle Inspiration

From Yearbooks 1920’s – 1950’s

1920’s

1920s Vintage Yearbook: Meet Elizabeth & Sadie, Seniors from William Peace University featured in ‘THE LOTUS 1928’ Yearbook.

Wonderful look into 1920s University life for women and fabulous 1920s hairstyle Inspiration.

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1920s Vintage Yearbook: Lilly & Celeste, Seniors from William Peace University featured in ‘THE LOTUS 1928’ Yearbook. 

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1928 The Maple Leaf Yearbook from Livingstone College. Chic 1920s Hairstyles on these stylish ladies and men.

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1930’s

1931 Pine Burr, Campbell University. Leslie & Norwood (omg his name is adorable). Still a 1920s Style, but slowly venturing in a 1930s look in the hair department.

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The T.C. Pedagogue [1935] Yearbook Student Staff from Winston-Salem University. Wonderful 30’s Hairstyles on these beautiful young Black Women. Love!

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1938 ‘The Zenith’, High Point University. These women’s 1930s hairstyles are on point!

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1940’s

The Pertelote [1942], Brevard College vintage yearbook photos of 4 women wearing fantastic 1940s Hairstyles. Look at those curls!

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1940s Vintage Hairstyle inspiration as seen on these Black students at Elizabeth City State University NC ‘The Pirate’ yearbook 1948. More beautiful Curls!

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1945 ‘The Zenith’ Yearbook from High Point University. These later 1940s Hairstyles, complete with Hair Flower are wonderful vintage hairstyle inspiration!

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1950’s

1957 The Pirate’s Log Yearbook from Elizabeth State University featuring the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Stylish Black women in 1950s Fashions and 1950s hairstyles. Gorgeous!

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1953 Yearbook Photo of Seniors from ‘The Zenith’ at High Point University. Lovely 1950s hairstyles on the women and the men’s hair are just so dapper looking.

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I hope you enjoyed taking a look at the vintage hairstyles that students from all different era’s were sporting. As mentioned before yearbooks are a fantastic way to see exactly how the “regular guys and girls” were doing it (which is usually way more achievable then movie star looks).

Take a look at other Vintage Yearbook posts I did HERE.

Also I did some new posts in 2022 on A Vintage Guide to 1940s Hair Accessories, & Vintage Hair Tools: Hairstyle Books 1940s & 1950s, so be inspired to recreate some of these looks.

QUESTION TIME: Which era was your favorite? Share in the comments section below.

Oh and for more Vintage Hairstyle Inspiration please follow my Pinterest board (below), dedicated to this topic.

Liz