Untitled postcard of a French pompadour coiffeure, c. 1910.

See also:
Changing fashion (“Shampoo Coiffure”), c. 1910.
“Modern Shampoo” advertising postcard, c. 1935.

“If cutting the hair short was too radical [in Meiji Japan], as public reaction attests, women’s hair did gain a new option in the sokugami style, a pompadour resembling the chignons worn by Charles Dana Gibson’s popular Gibson girls. The further the front section, or ‘eaves’, of the hair protruded, the more daring the style.

“The sokugami style bunched the hair, coiling it in a bun at the crown of the head. Unlike traditional coiffures, sokugami did not require the heavy use of pomade, pins, bars, strings, and false hair to hold its shape. Its appeal was promoted as healthier and more rational – hence, more enlightened- than the old ways.”

– Kimono: Fashioning Culture, Liza Crihfield Dalby, 1993