1944. Veronica Lake’s trademark peek-a-boo hair-do (a cascade of golden tresses that fell forward to obscure one heavy-lidded eye) motivated a generation of women to imitate her. Her impact was so dramatic that during the war she was forced by the US government to temporarily change her hairstyle after a number of women in munitions factories got injured when their long locks of hair caught in assembly-line machinery. Photo by A L “Whitey” Schafer.
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