Jamaican immigrants and reggae artists likeDesmond Dekkerinfluenced the short hairstyles of the rude boy. This look started in the 1960s for British Jamaicans and continued into the 1970s. There was a mainstream revival of therude boylook in the late 1970s due to “2 Tone” ska bands likeT...
Dreadlocks have often been perceived as a hairstyle associated with 20th century Jamaican and Rastafarian culture, but according to Dr. Bert Ashe’s book, Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, one of the earliest known recordings of the style has been found in the Hindu Vedic scriptures. In its Ind...