30 Vintage Photos
Farrah Fawcett and her iconic ’70s hairstyle.
You could debate who was the sexiest female sex symbol of the 1970s — you could say that Lynda “Wonder Woman” Carter had the most heroically Amazonian figure, or that Raquel Welch had an untouchable smoldering exoticism, or that Catherine “Daisy Duke” Bach had the best, uh, jean shorts. But there’s no debate about the hair. Farrah Fawcett owned the hair prize in the 1970s. She had an epically tousled, feathered look. Her feathers had feathers. A California condor with a 10-foot wingspan didn’t have this many feathers. There was nothing like it. The controlled chaos of Fawcett’s hair was on full display in her 1976 photo shoot with Bruce McBroom, which yielded the iconic red-swimsuit image that would adorn teenage boys’ rooms all over the country for years to come.
You could debate who was the sexiest female sex symbol of the 1970s — you could say that Lynda “Wonder Woman” Carter had the most heroically Amazonian figure, or that Raquel Welch had an untouchable smoldering exoticism, or that Catherine “Daisy Duke” Bach had the best, uh, jean shorts. But there’s no debate about the hair. Farrah Fawcett owned the hair prize in the 1970s. She had an epically tousled, feathered look. Her feathers had feathers. A California condor with a 10-foot wingspan didn’t have this many feathers. There was nothing like it. The controlled chaos of Fawcett’s hair was on full display in her 1976 photo shoot with Bruce McBroom, which yielded the iconic red-swimsuit image that would adorn teenage boys’ rooms all over the country for years to come.
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