3/28/2024 0 Comments Quiff hairstyle vs coif![]() ![]() Many photos on the site, including this one, illustrating male quiffs of two degrees of extremity: Yes, Elvis was probably of your parents’ generation, but a combination of hair and hip thrusting made him stand out and, as it stands as a 2012 men’s hairstyle, that’s precisely what the quiff is about: standing out with the hope of hip thrusting. So in 2012 the quiff deviates from something solely early-rock to include a variation that is a whole lot less Gene Vincent and a whole lot more Elvis. Think James Dean and a desire to get laid and you’re on the right track. One where the six string doesn’t matter, the Devil doesn’t get a show in, and the look sits somewhere between the moody and the broody. The style of quiff may have changed but this is still an attitude-infused hairstyle, it just happens to be a very different attitude. But like so many things, the return of the quiff to popularity has eventually seen it evolve into something more refined. It started out with a hint of the extreme, with overtones of an attitude that said “I play a six string” and the Devil may care. Some discussion from the extensive quiff coverage on the droll site : (The OED doesn’t mark the word as either British or slang, though some other sources do.) The cites, from 1890 on, are all British, but the word has clearly made its way into American English, and now applies to women’s hair as well as men’s. Now: a piece of hair brushed and styled upwards and backwards from the forehead, typically worn by a man and associated with the fashion and culture of the 1950’s. Origin uncertain perhaps < a variant of coif v.2 or < its etymon French coifferįormerly: a curl or lock of hair plastered down on the forehead, esp. ![]() Here’s an image of the boy adventurer, with his quiff (and his dog, Snowy): (For some discussion of Tintin on this blog, see here.) The hair-style noun quiff caught my eye, and pronunciation /tɪntɪn/ (rather than /tæntæn/) in ads for the movie caught my ear. ![]() Tintin (Jamie Bell), the young reporter with an orange-brown quiff and an insatiable curiosity, pursues a buried treasure, journeying to the far corners by ship, plane, and motorcycle. The plot is standard boy’s-book adventure stuff. David Denby in the New Yorker on the new Steven Spielberg film The Adventures of Tintin: ![]()
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