Notable gangsters, such as John Gotti, have sported the hair style. The style is often parodied in shows like The Sopranos or Jersey Shore, which portray negatively stereotyped characters-especially Silvio Dante. This style had become popular among Mexican American Chicanos, Italian Americans and the " goombah" or " Guido" subculture. During the 1930s and 1940s, the pompadour and ducktail were popular among hep cats and Mexican zoot suiters. There are Latin variants of the hair style more associated with European and Argentine tango fashion trends and occasionally with late 20th century musical genres such as rockabilly and country. It was then called by other names ( Quiff, ducktail, jelly roll, Rocker, Greaser, or simply "the Elvis cut").ĭuring the 1980s, the hair style was associated with the "rockabilly" culture, and adopted by those enamoured with vintage culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which included antique cars, hot rods, muscle cars, American folk music, greasers, Teddy Boys, rockabilly bands, and Elvis Presley impersonators.Ĭelebrities known for wearing pompadours during the 1950s and 1960s include Little Richard and Afghanistan's Ahmad Zahir as well as actors such as James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Desi Arnaz. In the 1950s, this hairstyle was not yet called the pompadour, and was donned by James Dean and Elvis Presley. The style is worn by men and women in the 21st century, under the modern name pompadour.
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The men's version appeared in the 1950s and early 1960s, worn by early country, rock and roll and movie stars such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Ritchie Valens, James Dean, and Tony Curtis, and enjoyed a renaissance in the mid 2000s. The style was in vogue for women once again in the 1940s. In the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, a character refers to Jay Gatsby having had a pompadour in his youth. The style was revived again in the 1890s as part of the Gibson Girl look and continued to be in vogue until World War I. Stylists had daring ideas for adding more and more height. A new, extravagant style adding again height and volume came into fashion under Louis XVI, around the 1770s and 1780s, culminating before the Revolution with the contemporaries of Marie-Antoinette. Under Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour's time, hair was worn rather low and backswept, with a simple aura of locks, and was never called a pompadour. She started wearing it like this every day to please him, and created a new hairstyle called the "Fontange", adding vertical volume to the hair. In 1680, King Louis XIV loved the way his mistress the Duchess of Fontanges arranged her hair after she fell from her horse. Adding vertical volume on top of the head, by combing the hair back and up above the forehead, is a trend that originated in women's hairstyles of the royal court in France, first in the 1680s, and again in the second half of the 18th century, long before and after Madame de Pompadour.