Eton crop

Then he said very severely that is not an Eton crop, Mademoiselle.

The Eton crop, one of the shorter and more drastic cuts of its day, was the most popular.

The Eton crop is a type of very short, slicked-down crop hairstyle for women.

She took to wearing men's clothing, cut her hair in a short style called the Eton crop, and was at times mistaken for a handsome young boy.

And I said I didn't want an Eton crop, Monsieur.

Boyish cuts were in vogue, especially the Bob cut, Eton crop, and Shingle bob.

There is an Eton crop, there are many soft shingles, and there are a few heads where the hair is being let grow."

Eton crop, an ultra-short, masculine bob briefly popular in the mid-1920s and based on a schoolboy style; usually worn with slicked-down hair.

Even hardened admirers are likely to be a bit disconcerted, to start with at least, by the narrative fits and starts of this particular story, "Eton Crop."

There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop (an accident of her father's home hairdressing).

The women's Eton crop of 1925, pioneered by Coco Chanel, was rightly perceived as signaling the end of a male-dominated order.

'There's the bell,' then, as a woman strode past in plus fours with an Eton crop, added, 'and there's the DC.

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.

She had removed the cloche hat and her thick dark cap of hair, cut fashionably into a short Eton crop, rippled in the wind and shone like washed anthracite.

The hats even shaped hairstyles: the Eton crop - the short, slicked-down cut worn by Josephine Baker - became popular because it was ideal to showcase the hats' shape.

In this East Village all the clubs have wonderful names - Cafe Orlon, Ultrasuede, Eton Crop - and are so incredibly cool that we'd all like to go there every night.

At a fancy-dress party at the Firth family home, Cavendish Hall in Suffolk, Francis dressed up as a flapper with an Eton crop, beaded dress, lipstick, high heels, and a long cigarette holder.

She was about fifty, I suppose, her hair was grey, cut very short in what was almost an Eton crop but which grew so beautifully on her small well shaped head that it had none of the ugliness I have always associated with that particular cut.

The collegial underworld partnerships that Bill James has been cultivating in a sly series of mordantly funny police procedurals nearly come to grief in ETON CROP (Foul Play/Norton, $22.95) when a London syndicate tries to muscle in on the hometown drug trade.