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• Lightweight, cool, comfortable material; soft elastic headband.
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Available in 21" or 24" sizes.
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Latex free.
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Manufactured of blue spun bonded polypropylene.
• Also recommended for food prep, labs and medical
facilities.
Bouffant caps are pretty much all the same. Except that ours cost less.
A bouffant is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
The English word bouffant comes from the French bouffante, from the present participle of bouffer: "to puff, puff out."
The bouffant was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 18th century in western Europe. It was thought to be created for Marie Antoinette, as she had relatively thin hair and wanted to create the illusion of having very full hair.
The modern bouffant, considered by one source to have been invented by British celebrity hairdresser Raymond Bessone, was noted by Life in the summer of 1956 as being "already a common sight in fashion magazines."
The style became popular at the beginning of the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was often photographed with her hair in a bouffant, and her style was widely imitated. (First Lady Betty Ford is pictured below.) Generally speaking, by the mid-1960s many well-dressed women and girls were wearing some form of bouffant hairdo, which in one variation or another remained the fashionable norm until supplanted by the geometric bob cut at the end of the decade, and the looser shag or feathered styles of the early 1970s.
Hair on the top of the head was raised by backcombing or "teasing" it with a comb to create a pile of tangled, loosely knotted hair on the top and upper sides of the head. Then unteased hair from the front of the head was lightly combed over the pile to give a smooth, sleek look, and the ends of the outer hair might be combed, cut, curled, or flipped in many distinctive ways.In some cases, a small wiglet or a cushion of nylon mesh might be used instead of or in addition to teasing to add height at the crown of the head. Bangs might be worn over the forehead, or a long switch or "fall" of artificial hair, matching the wearer's own hair color, might be added at the back. Usually, hair spray or hair lacquer was applied as a finishing touch to stiffen the hairdo and hold it in place without the need for hairpins.
Since the hair could not be brushed without ruining the
style, women needing to make small adjustments used the
long, pointed end of a "rattail" comb to gently lift the
hair back into place.
