What cut you ask for in an East London hairdressers in the late 1980s and early 1990s? Men in East London didn’t sport man buns, top knots and ironic mullets. Women’s hair was bouffant big, moussed, soft, puffy and all about volume. You’d see flat tops, hair curtains, ski slopes, generous fringes, shaved lines, rat tails, perms and hi-top fades. Peter Marshall was walking around East London, taking photographs of the everyday things, like these, his pictures of hairdressers.
Gents, Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1984
Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Rd, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1988
The Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Road, Limehouse, London 1986
The Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Road, Limehouse, London 1986
Rons Gents Modern, Hairdressers, Bethnal Green, 1982
Miss Novems, Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991
Hairdressers, West Ham Lane, Stratford, Newham, 1991
Hairdressers, Puma Court, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1990
Hairdressers, Balaam St, Plaistow, Newham, 1991
Hairdresser, White’s Row, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Hairdresser, Romford Rd, Forest Gate, Newham, 1992
Hairdresser, Queens Rd, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest, 1989
Hairdresser, Plashet Rd, East Ham, Newham, 1991
Hairdresser, Leytonstone Rd, Maryland, Newham, 1989
Hairdresser, Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, Waltham Forest, 1989
Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991
Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991
Hairdresser, Chapel Rd, Ilford, Redbridge, 1992
Hairdresser, Barking Rd, Plaistow, Newham, 1991
Darby’s Tropicana, Hairdressers, Amherst Rd, Farleigh Rd, Hackney, 1988
Agesports, Hairdresser, Romford Rd, Manor Park, Newham, 1991
Via: Peter Marshall.
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