# When Were Headbands Last In Style?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 12, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492 "2015-10-12T23:41:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/21 "2015-10-15T01:44:57Z")
I think Pat Benatar was the last style icon to wear them unironically. Luke Wilson in some Wes Anderson movie, maybe?
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/22 "2015-10-15T01:53:43Z")
Headbands are in style _now_, ya old fogies. Mostly [20’s inspired stuff](https://www.google.com/search?q=headband&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=643&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMI-d_h0K7DyAIVR4oNCh1oYgeS), thanks to Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby, although the hippie/bohemian look persists and overlaps.
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### Author:  [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/23 "2015-10-15T01:54:22Z")
People still occasionally were them. Some people wear them with doorags. Many people like Lebron James wear them when playing sports. And of course there is this [guy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/The_Wire_Marlo.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/24 "2015-10-15T07:25:02Z")
> [@brickbacon](#):
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> … And of course there is this [guy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/The_Wire_Marlo.jpg).
Little known Wire trivia fact. Marlo’s Stansfield’s headband was made of velcro, so he could fasten lighters, spare clips of bullets, coupons, shopping lists etc to it and keep his hands free for handling drugs. Unfortunately because it caused such a hassle in continuity the producers made him wear it ‘au naturel’.
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### Author:  [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/26 "2020-03-12T21:59:53Z")
I rather like that in the list of threads it currently says:
“When were headbands last in fashion?”
“Dire Straits’ Walk of Life”
Question answered right there, I think…
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/27 "2020-03-12T22:40:00Z")
Reported
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### Author:  [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/28 "2020-03-12T23:30:24Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Reported
Better than deported. But I digress. I may find reason to band my head. Whatever I wear is _de facto_ stylish because I’m an eternal fashion plate. Even the paisley kilt.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/30 "2020-03-14T00:43:05Z")
…are we talking about GIRL headbands, or BOY headbands?
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/32 "2020-03-14T13:49:10Z")
> [@martinbrown](#):
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> Headbands are still in fashion and i also love to wear headbands, I have a big collections of headbands and headwraps.
Were you wearing them in 2015, when this thread was last in style?
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-headbands-last-in-style/734492/34 "2020-03-14T14:44:48Z")
Reported
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