Did Leslie Caron's ridiculous "pixie" haircut ruin her career?

It's kinda hideous. In the bloom of youth, Leslie Caron was always "cute" or "sweet-looking," IMHO. Never a great beauty.

Of course, in her very French way, she's turned a lovely, sophisticated mature woman. (Pic is about a decade or so old.)

That haircut looks bad on 99% of women. It only works if you’re butch or super gorgeous.

She had the face of a fish.

The pixie was popular around 1953-55 and she had big movies success after that (Gigi, Fanny, Father Goose), so her movie career wasn't ruined by the unflattering do. She looked pretty with long hair.

Is this a pixie cut? Looks mid 60s.

If Julia Roberts pixie cut didn’t ruin her career than I highly doubt Leslie’s ruined hers.

I'm sure women care what old gay men think of their haircut from 60 years ago.

Pixies discussin' pixie cuts—who'da thunk it?

[quote]I'm sure women care what old gay men think of their haircut from 60 years ago.

I'm sure women who don't care would not be bothered to read a thread about Leslie Caron's haircut on a gay men's website.

Get her r9!

Read the tweet bitch. And check yourself. Out.

I don’t read trash r7. Please fuck off and die, cunt.

Watch your mouth R12. Ancient white fags are drunk posting on DL every Saturday, so I'll give you a pass tonight. God Bless You Gramps.

It became a thing after Disney's 1953 Peter Pan.

Shirley Mac Laine

Audrey Hepburn

R13 Continue on, you lifeless fool...

Leslie is quite attractive with longer hair.

It takes a truly beautiful face to pull off a pixie properly.

The guy at R7 literally doesn't think women should have the right to vote

"That haircut looks bad on 99% of women. It only works if you’re butch or super gorgeous.'

Not at all, that hair cut looks great on a lot of women though not all, of course. Judi Dench looks great and she is neither butch nor gorgeous. Looks great on Cars Delevinge who isn't traditionally gorgeous, same with Annie Lennox.

I think a lot of women look great with that haircut. Long hair on old women looks too grandma Barbie.

I own this haircut.

She was in several episodes of the show "The Durrells", featuring DL favorite Josh "Huge Cock" O'Connor. She played an elderly countess who also lived on Corfu.

Her sons were producers of the show.

The pixie haircut made my career.

The pixie haircut was the least of my problems.

I own this thread.

Move over, bitches...

[quote]She had the face of a fish.

They all do.

My first trip to Paris in the 1990s and I was sitting my first morning at a lovely and typical outdoor cafe on the Champs-Elysees having an espresso and croissant and who strolled by?

Leslie Caron, wearing an elegant long woolen cape with a matching scarf. It couldn't have been a more appropriate welcome to the city.

Pixie cut for Lulu!

Short hair, especially pixie type cuts, does not belong on women. Women are to have long hair. Case closed. If a heterosexual man is attracted to a woman with short hair then he is essentially bisexual in nature because he is attracted to masculine traits. Women who cut their hair short are being defiant in their place in the world. They are going against their position to serve man.

Twiggy pre-pixie...

Not pre, post.

It's kind of funny how the 1950s were all about maintaining gender roles post-WWII, from the perfect TV housewives to the exaggerated hourglass silhouette...except for the short haircuts for some reason.

Sorry, R31 It had to be done...

I cannot BELIEVE no one has mentioned...

Janine!

Yoo-hoo! My super chic pixie haircut will make you forget I have a collapsed nostril!

The Gamine did not ruin her or Hepburn's careers.

r40, I wish Gary would have talked her out of that

Did R31 get lost on his way to his Evangelical service?

I think it looks fine. Young women or older women with very chiseled but feminine features can pull the gamine look off. Julia Roberts looked like shit. She needs all the hair she can get to cover that horsey face.

R42, R31 is the same cunt who posted the link to his “Straight Men’s Rights” twitter feed at r7. A truly vile cunt who dislikes fucking cursing and women who want the right to vote.

I am assuming he power bottoms at least twice a week.

[Quote] I am assuming he power bottoms at least twice a week.

For his own fist.

Oh, is that the new "Italian cut", r40?

Lucy's Gina Lollobridgida "do" isn't pixie.

Ta-Ra!

They made it so much easier to wash that man right outta your hair.....

Childie!

Liv and let live.

I remember when Winona Ryder thought she was Audrey Hepburn

Heche.

R44 I didn’t post that twitter feed. It’s Datalounge dumbass. Don’t take things so seriously stalker.

Winona and Anne Heche both looked prettier, IMHO, with short pixie styles.

Anne is 50 now and Winona is 48. Seeing them both, Anne in particular, overly made up and with long Barbie hair--they're both trying too hard. I get that they're both trying to stay employable, and that long hair=fertility=youth, but I don't think it's a great look for either of them.

At least France embraces sexy, sophisticated older women as a type. We don't, not really.

Dial down the makeup, Noni...

Winona looked as good as anyone with that haircut, as in very beautiful R55. Mia, Audrey, Natalie and Winona are all gorgeous with very short hair. Lots of other women look their best with that style - Michelle Williams, Anne Heche, Anne Hathaway too. More than delicate features are required - pretty eyes and a wide defined jawline help. A nice small chin. Bella.

R56 Ryder needs to return those cheek implants she shoplifted.

But her hair is gorgeous.

Aren't I gorgeous?

Aren't I gorgeous?

Continue on, you lifeless fool....

Yes, Caron looks prettier with more hair, but the pixie cut helped her career anyway!

It made her stand out from the crowd of film starlets, in a way that trying to be as conventionally pretty as possible would not. The cut gave her a unique look and brought out her air of seemingly effortless chic, which made her look very different from the competition, most of whom were bleaching and curling and piling on more corsetry and false eyelashes. Caron wasn't beautiful but she was distinctive, with her slightly androgynous look in the era of Marilyn Monroe hyperfemininity.