East London Hairdressers in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

Peter Marshall's photographs of East London hairdressers

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.

 

East London hairdressers

Gents, Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1984

East London hairdressers

Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Rd, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1988

East London hairdressers

The Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Road, Limehouse, London 1986

East London hairdressers

The Ideal Hairdresser, Commercial Road, Limehouse, London 1986

East London hairdressers

Rons Gents Modern, Hairdressers, Bethnal Green, 1982

East London hairdressers

Miss Novems, Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991

East London hairdressers

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

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Romford Rd, Forest Gate, Newham, 1992

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Queens Rd, Walthamstow, Waltham Forest, 1989

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Plashet Rd, East Ham, Newham, 1991

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Leytonstone Rd, Maryland, Newham, 1989

Hairdresser, Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton, Waltham Forest, 1989

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991

Hairdresser, Green St, Upton, Newham, 1991

East London hairdressers

Hairdresser, Chapel Rd, Ilford, Redbridge, 1992

Hairdresser, Barking Rd, Plaistow, Newham, 1991

Darby’s Tropicana, Hairdressers, Amherst Rd, Farleigh Rd, Hackney, 1988

East London hairdressers

Agesports, Hairdresser, Romford Rd, Manor Park, Newham, 1991

Via: Peter Marshall.

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