HILARY ROSE

Bye-bye, bob, it’s time to grow your hair

Emma Stone’s move from a choppy style to long straggly locks in her new film, Poor Things, means the bob is dead. Again.

Emma Stone with long hair in Poor Things; and with a bob last year
Emma Stone with long hair in Poor Things; and with a bob last year
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Hilary Rose
The Times

The last time I had a bob was in 2010. I’ve no idea, from memory, if that made me unfashionable or solidly middle-of-the-road, but it’s a relief that today I am bang on point when it comes to my hair. The bob, you see, is officially dead, again, and if you’ve been too busy running the NHS or restructuring third world debt to notice, well, thank heavens for me.

It is true that obituaries of the bob come around surprisingly often, but this time we know it’s for real. Why? Because of Emma Stone. In her new film, Poor Things, for which she is tipped to win a Golden Globe on Sunday night, she is sporting what we could call the anti-bob: long, long