Louise Brooks and the most imitated hairstyle of modern times

After the Great War (1914-1919) everything changed. All of a sudden, people liberated themselves from the conventions of the pre-war period that had put everybody in a straightjacket of rules and do's and don'ts which had even emprisoned politicians and kings and queens into ways of thinking that were impossible to keep up, yet were considered the only right way. It led to WW I and the fall of the German Empire, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and, eventually, the British Empire. Before the war, fashion was like politics. Thick with mores, centuries old dress habits, unwieldy, unbefitting and not fitting the times of fast travel and industrialisation that were making the new world. One of the things that came forward from centuries of habits was the immensely complex hairdo's for women. There was only one effort to do something about it, and that started in an