{"id":3979,"date":"2013-11-19T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:56:01","slug":"fashion-factoid-veronica-lakes-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/19\/fashion-factoid-veronica-lakes-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Factoid: Veronica Lake&#8217;s Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leninimports.com\/veronica_lake_gallery_11.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[3979]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 5px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leninimports.com\/veronica_lake_gallery_11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known for her &#8216;peek-a-book&#8217; hairstyle &#8211; it became a bit of a problem during World War II: &#8220;In the early 1940s, US government officials asked Lake to wear her hair  up for the duration of WWII: it seems that too many women working in  factories were imitating her famous &#8220;peek-a-boo bang&#8221; and getting their  hair caught in assembly-line machinery.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/person\/107416|150623\/Veronica-Lake\/\">Turner Classic Movies<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video making the point:<br \/>\n<object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LMcSNAUzDIk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LMcSNAUzDIk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for her &#8216;peek-a-book&#8217; hairstyle &#8211; it became a bit of a problem during World War II: &#8220;In the early 1940s, US government officials asked Lake to wear her hair up for the duration of WWII: it seems that too many women working in factories were imitating her famous &#8220;peek-a-boo bang&#8221; and getting their hair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,1],"tags":[153,155,156,154,152,151],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}