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.

1920s Vintage Yearbook: Meet 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!

The T.C. Pedagogue [1935] Yearbook Student Staff from Winston-Salem university wearing 1930s Hairstyles as seen on these young black women.

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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!

1940s Vintage Hairstyle inspiration as seen on these black women students at Elizabeth City State University NC 'The Pirate' yearbook 1948.

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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!

1940s Women's Yearbook Photo featuring 1940s Women's Hairstyles.

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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.

1950s Men and Women's Vintage Hairstyles as seen in a 1950s Yearbook

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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

I have amazing friends, friends who bring back from their stay in Europe, a whole collection of Vintage Professional Hair Dressing Magazines called “La Coiffure De Paris” for me to just have. Yooza! Thank You Bryan!

For today’s post I want to give you an overview of what you can see in these amazing hair dressing magazines.

March 2023 update: I have done some videos on TikTok taking a look inside of some of the magazines in this collection. You can find them on my profile HERE.

A Look Inside “La Coiffure De Paris

1948-1952 Professional Hair Dressing Magazines

Let us begin with February & May 1948 for Part 1 of this Series.

Note: The magazine is in French (obviously), so if you can read the instructions you are going to have an even better chance of achieving these looks.

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The Cover -February 1948

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Hairstyles seen at the Championship of France in 1947.

Beautiful large curls for a stylish daytime look.

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1940s Hairstyle for the evening.

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Bangs for another daytime look.

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The cover for May 1948

Hairstyles seen at Antwerp International Days.

Hairstyles seen at Toulouse competitions.

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Styling for 3 Hairstyles from 1. A Fantasy look, Afternoon and Evening look.

The 1948 “Fantasy Look” and the setting pattern for the 3 styles that you will see below.

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1948 Evening Look-Transformation # 1.

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1948 Afternoon Look-Transformation # 2.

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There you have it! February and May 1948 La Coiffure De Paris Vintage Hair Dressing Magazine. Such stunning styles that are oh so elegant! What was your favorite from above (Share in the comments below)?

FURTHER READING:

Take a look at my ‘Women’s Vintage Hairstyle‘ archive HERE
I did a detailed blog post on “1940s Women’s Hair Accessories” HERE
Vintage Hair Tools: Hairstyle Books 1940s & 1950s

Liz

Category: Vintage Hairstyles