Pin-up models hair length: Short or Long. What do you think?

[Rust Queen inc]

Ok we just got a few emails from fans of the magazine and they told us that short hair models are not truley pin-up models just want a bes. So is this true. Does a pin-up model have to have long hair? What do you think and why long hair. Does color of the hair matter also? Please tell us why and what you think.

[Bunny Levinson]

I think it depends. But it always has to be glamorous.

[Rust Queen inc]

Yes I think it is important to look glamorous but this guy said that short hair on a model makes them look like a guy and he would not sleep with a guy. Ok first why does he have to sleep with the models and the next things is he scared he might be gay. To me I like both short and long hair.

[Bunny Levinson]

That gent probably has some issues. Marilyn Monroe had shortish hair.

[Roxie Roulette {★}]

You have to really define 'short' hair.
Is this a pixie cut or just above the shoulders? Quite a few 60's gals had a pixie cut. Plus, look at the 20's and the age of the flapper: short hair was the key essential to get the bob or fingerwaves.
If he wants authentic pin up models then it doesn't matter, but going by what was in fashion and practical when pin up really came into it's own during WW2, shorter hair styles were much more common than longer ones because that's what was needed - long hair + machinery = messy!
But that's just if he wants authentically vintage pin up models. I suppose the style for the modern pin up is longer hair, but that doesn't mean short hair should be unheard of!

[Rust Queen inc]

That is what I said. Shorter hair is and was common. Thank you.

Roxie Roulette said:

You have to really define 'short' hair.
Is this a pixie cut or just above the shoulders? Quite a few 60's gals had a pixie cut. Plus, look at the 20's and the age of the flapper: short hair was the key essential to get the bob or fingerwaves.
If he wants authentic pin up models then it doesn't matter, but going by what was in fashion and practical when pin up really came into it's own during WW2, shorter hair styles were much more common than longer ones because that's what was needed - long hair + machinery = messy!
But that's just if he wants authentically vintage pin up models. I suppose the style for the modern pin up is longer hair, but that doesn't mean short hair should be unheard of!

[Bunny Levinson]

Short hair can be so sassy. :)

[Rachael Valentine❤ {★}]

As long as its Gorgious ......Who cares what length it is!

[Roxy Tart {PL Team / Comm. Mgr}]

The man who told you that is an idiot.

[Sara Sundae]

I have seen several adorable girls on here with shorter hair and they rock it!
I don't think a shorter cut looks too great with big victory rolls (a look I tried in my younger days)
and I like MY hair longer, I'm still trying to grow it back to what it once was.

as far as color is concerned- I LOVE unnatural colored hair! Black hair is the hardest to photograph, you just cant see all the sculpted rolls as well- but its still glossy and beautiful. I prefer to use ladies with highlights/lowlights or lighter hair as models for my hair styling port to show off my work better. But any color works on a lovely lady posing with a car!

[Ellie Retrophilia]

Psssh. Hair length doesn't matter! There were tons of gorgeous and women from the '20s to the '60s that had long or short hair. Most women in the 20s and 50s had shorter than shoulder length hair but still made it as models, pinup or otherwise. Long hair does not a pinup make...it's attitude, style and authenticity! Bobs and pageboys were popular from the 20s to the 50s so for a guy to say that short hair makes a woman look like a dude is a guy who is either highly emasculated or afraid of something. Some of the most stunning women have super short hair!

[Vivacious Elizabeth]

Pin-Up is not limited to an era....even if we were discussing only the 30's and 40's; most had "The Middy" hair cut, through the 30-40's this hair cut was standard. The longest (note the word, longest) panel of hair was 4 inches long. This means the longest hair was just below the shoulders. Anything longer was not common.

Remember this is the depression. Long hair was a luxury many could not afford and impractical for the working wartime girl.

[Victoria Dagger]

If anything, I think my hair is too long for pinup styles. Pixie cut length is not very pinup, but in general shoulder length or shorter is probably good. I would hardly count Marilyn Monroe as having had long hair, for example.