In 1911 Dora Carrington cut her long hair to a "short, boyish bob". Two of her friends at the Slade Art School, Dorothy Brett and Barbara Hiles, copied her. They became known as the "Slade Cropheads" and "set a trend for young female art students".
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTcarrington.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTbrett.htm
