The Pageboy haircut is a borrowed look. It was borrowed from boys, the Knight's assistant, who is basically a servant who might become a knight in training. Oddly, the best example and likely modern-day inspiration was Prince Valiant, a male, whose portrayal by Robert Wagner set the standard. It was much criticized later, but only by shortsighted critics, who didn't get the point that the 1950s and 1960s look was created to start with from a male servant look. It was convenient. It fit underneath a helmet, and it required little maintenance. That was the appeal for women as well, not the wearing of a Prince Valiant comic helmet, but the easy maintenance.

        

The secret as to its great appeal, is that it allowed a girl to function as a boy, at an age when she had yet to reach womanhood. She was an athletic partner, not a doll on a pedestal, which is what a lot of the modern day Barbie engineering makes her into. This is definitely not a prom Queen look. She is is being herself, and that is the secret. The Prom Queen is a teenager, not yet mature, who is trying to pretend that she is grown up. She wears her hair high. The Pageboy is a girl who plays with the boys, as one of them, but she is so obviously feminine that she has captured the attention of her admirers.

The true pageboy hairstyle has to be just right. Not too long and not too short. It's a bob at jaw length, that is best left straight as an arrow with not too deep a fringe of bangs. Once it starts curling and curving, it needs work and that defeats the whole effect of a girl who can play touch football with the boys. She is reachable and touchable, not some goddess on a pedestal with her hair in curlers and glued together with hairspray. She is naturally feminine. That is what the pageboy look embodies. And it is also a promise. It promises fun interaction. You don't dance with a girl in a pageboy, you let her beat you at Scrabble or arm wrestling.

        

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