The Breck girl was the perfect blond whose pastel portrait sold “beautiful hair Breck” to four decades of women. Maybe no other shampoo in the world has had such a strong identity. Breck.

Mr. Breck also enlisted the help of a Springfield artist, Charles Sheldon, to create the company’s signature advertising feature, the “Breck Girls” and the slogan “Beautiful Hair Breck.” ...

Their portraits, hair a-shimmer, all have graced Breck shampoo ads. An exhibition of 150 portraits from the famous Breck advertising campaign opened recently in the Breck Girl Hall of Fame, […] ...

It was the Super Bowl of hair. After a 19-year hiatus, the Breck Girl returned to the American scene recently in Phoenix, where three new mane mavens were crowned by the Dial Corp., owners of the ...

Reportedly, 19 of the Breck Girls worked at his advertising agency. One of his subjects, Jean Ivory, posed for eight portraits, including a “Beautiful Hair” poster in the Moravian show.

Before doctor Barbie came along, complicating a girl's dreams with all that choice, fulfillment used to be so easy. There was only one thing a girl knew she wanted to be when she grew up: a Breck ...

Edwards finds 'Breck Girl' styling hard to shake off The last thing an American presidential candidate needs is to be compared with a 1950s shampoo model. But that has been the unfortunate lot of ...

The next 15 years witnessed the heyday of the famous advertising campaign featuring Breck Girls such as Jaclyn Smith, Christie Brinkley, Cybill Shepherd and Brooke Shields.

Gertrude E. Breck, a former model for the distinctive “Breck Girl” shampoo ads, and widow of the chairman of the board of John H. Breck Inc., died Monday at home. She was 89.

The Breck Girls, though they may have been glamorized by the artists who drew them, were real people. As advertising manager for the Breck Company, I knew both the artists and many of the models. The ...