Black and grey flash sheet of six vintage men's hairstyle portraits, labelled The Valentino, The Executive, City Slick, Service Man, The Playboy and Aristocrat.

Vintage men's hairstyle flash sheet

Traditional · Black and grey · Flash

A cream-coloured flash sheet showing six line-drawn male head and shoulder portraits, each in a different slicked or pompadour hairstyle with a collar, tie or bow tie. Each portrait has a decorative scroll ornament and a caption beneath it. The linework is bold and clean, with shading in dotted and hatched areas, and the sheet uses only black ink on a cream background.

Traditional Portrait Collar Bow tie Moustache Flash sheet Lettering

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Mr Okonedo's chair had been turned to face the window for the third time that morning, and Dessie Marr was still sweeping the same tuft of brown hair from the lino when the first customer pushed through the door without knocking. "The Executive," he said, tapping the printed sheet taped beside the mirror. "Not the Valentino. I've got a board meeting in Leeds and I don't want to look like I'm courting anyone."

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Dessie had worked the chair on Harrow Lane for eleven years and could do all six from that sheet without looking, though his father never believed the bow-tie cuts were worth the bother. The Playboy wanted the sides taken high and the quiff left long enough to lift in the wind. The Service Man wanted nothing but a clean parting and a hard line at the neck. Aristocrat customers came in twice a year and sat with their hands folded, as if they were waiting to be called before a magistrate.

After closing, with the shutter half down and the radio murmuring the football results, Dessie took the sheet from the wall to fold it for the bin. Behind the cream card, his father had pencilled the names of the men he'd shaved for the Navy in 1958, each beside a little drawn scroll that matched the printed ones. The last name was blank, and the space below it was empty.

Dessie sat under the strip light with a borrowed pencil and drew a seventh head and shoulders, a plain parting and a collar turned up against the rain. He left the caption alone and pinned the sheet back up, so that whoever came in next could choose a name for him.