Eton crop

[1] The name derives from its similarity to a hairstyle allegedly popular with schoolboys at Eton.

[2] The Eton crop appears to have emerged in Britain in the mid-1920s: the first use of the phrase in The Times is in September 1926.

[citation needed] It is a severe hairstyle, emphasising the shape of the head and focusing interest on the face.

In June 1927 Margot Asquith, Lady Oxford, derided: "Women with neither backs nor tops to their heads, and faces as large as hams, appear at the King's Drawing Rooms with the nuque of their necks blue from shaving...".

[citation needed] A critic reviewing a collection of society portraits notes: "Hairdressing is in a state of transition.