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BEAUTY BY NUMBERS
From top: Jennifer Behr headbands, $895 and $2,800 (jenniferbehr.com).
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Headbands
Basically, they keep hair off the face. But when something has a place at the Oscars, in the NBA, and in a presidential campaign, there’s really nothing basic about it. —REPORTING BY JESA CALAOR
1992
YEAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ran the headline “Hillary: ‘I’m Standing Up for Headbands’” after the potential First Lady was blasted for her go-to hair accessory.
$17
8.98WEIGHT IN CARATS OF the diamonds on Lupita
Nyong’o’s headband at the 2014 Oscars.
.75
500APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF headbands costume designer
PRICE OF A “Vote Hillary Clinton for President” headband on zazzle.com.
26
32LENGTH IN INCHES OF THE original bra-strap headband,
which debuted on the Moschino runway in 1998.
2016YEAR RODARTE DESIGNERS Kate and Laura Mulleavy created
headbands of cast-metal orchids woven together with real flowers that models wore across the back of their heads.
Eric Daman outfitted Leighton Meester’s character in throughout Gossip Girl’s six-season run.
.5
PERCENTAGE ABOVE
league average that LeBron James shot in his first full game of the 2014– 2015 season without his signature—and some say
“magical”—headband.
LIAM GOODMAN