I don’t know about you, but when I think of short hair, I immediately think of Edie Sedgwick. The Factory Girl, born seventy years ago this weekend, wasted no time becoming an overnight hair icon when in 1965 she chopped off her long, mousy brown hair into a bleach blond, and sometimes silver spray-painted crop cut. I am such a scaredy cat when it comes to my hair. It reaches the middle of my back and as much as I hate blow drying it and combing it out from time-to-time, I don’t think I will ever have the guts to get scissor-happy. As much as I’d hate a shorter cut on myself, the chop feels as fresh and bold today as it did fifty years ago, with similar versions now back in the limelight on many young stars, from Miley Cyrus to Anne Hathaway to Michelle Williams. Here are some of my favorite short cuts.
