On “Leave It To Beaver”, Ward Cleaver (the father) admits to his wife, June, that he once had a crush on a girl in his class with braces and a platinum pageboy. What’s a “pageboy”? Well, it wasn’t a gameboy…maybe some fancy-looking compact, I WAG?
Google says its a hairstyle from the 40’s.
It’s a short hair cut.
A hairstyle. She would have been a platinum blonde with her hair cut like this:
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/fashion/fa1698.php
And it flips at the ends.
Like this:
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/fashion/fa1698.php
WV_Woman, have you met yabob? You two have a lot in common.
It’s Mary Tyler Moore’s hair.
Also Marlo Thomas.
It’s a chin-length to shoulder-length hairstyle, either flipped up or flipped down, depending.
Chin-length version, flipped under.
http://www.soflaartwork.com/pageboy.jpg
Chin-length version, flipped up (not that easy to do, IRL)–huge slow-loading JPEG, sorry.
http://www.mikelman.com/Neuveaux_Flaming_Red_Pageboy.jpg
Slightly longer chin-length version.
http://www.tartblossom.com/harlot2.jpg
Even slightly longer chin-length version.
http://www.displaycostume.com/products/125486.jpg
Classic shoulder-length version.
http://www.wigs.com/images/cos_12E.jpg
The Classic Shoulder-Length Pageboy, First Runner-Up: Marlo Thomas.
http://www.techedlab.com/thatgirl/marlo03.jpg
And finally, the ne plus ultra: MTM. Shoulder-length, flipped up.
http://tv.zap2it.com/images/shows/m/marytylermooreshow/marytylermooreshow_001.jpg
Chin-length, flipped under.
http://www.tvguide.com/tv/televisionary/images/001024tvask1.jpg
P.S. Some people think Janeway’s hair is a pageboy. I disagree. It looks more like a slightly longer 90’s “Katie Couric” to me.
http://www.janeway.org/KJHair/Pageboy1.jpg
P.P.S. Ward would have had his crush on the girl in Yabob’s link, in the 1940s.
And she, of course, wouldn’t have given him the time of day…
Yeah, donkey. We posted the same website at the same time! I guess we must be long lost twins! 
Fraternal, of course.
A pageboy flips under, a flip flips up.
Generally, a pageboy is a shorter hairlength than a flip.
I’m wondering, though, if Leave it to Beaver was in the Sixties, that means that Ward Cleaver would have been a teen in the late Forties, early Fifties? Just how prevalent were braces then?
~VOW
Orthodontic appliances have existed since the 16th century. Dental braces similar to those in use today first appeared in the mid 1800’s. As for how prevalen
Can’t edit my own posts? How irritating. At any rate, what I was going to say before I accidentally posted my reply was that I don’t have any information about exactly how prevalent braces were in the 1940’s, but they were certainly widely available.
Definitely the case. The name came from the standard hairdo a male page in a hotel of the 20s and 30s would wear. It was somewhat popular during World War II because it helped the “Rosie the Riveters” keep their hair from interferring with their work.
None of the links posted so far actually show what was considered a pageboy c1960 in my part of the universe.
It was a very short, close to the head cut. Usually with ears exposed.
Not long enough to flip either under or out. The “That Girl”/MTM style is very far removed from being called a pageboy.
Nowadays it’s the perfect “I want people to think I’m a lesbian but not really butch” 'do. (Was Ward “Chasing Amy”?)