Because my hair was long and in those days blond, my friends at age 13 suggested I could one day be a Breck girl. Possibility flickered before me-a Breck girl!-only to fizzle like a lantern in the ...

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 ...

They all are Breck Girls. 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Edward J. Breck, who expanded his father’s small laboratory into a national maker of hair-care products, died of heart failure July 30 at his summer home in Watch Hill, R.I. He was 86. Mr. Breck ...

The campaign ceased in 1978 and by the time Breck was sold to the Dial Corp. in 1990, the fierce competition for the American consumer's hair-care dollar had taken its toll.

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. Mrs. Breck… ...

The hair trends of the last few seasons have also had a hand in propagating the movement. The sleek, glossy blowouts favoured by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, for instance, have been replaced of ...

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 Democratic North Carolina senator, John Edwards ...

The Breck Girls, though they may have ... They were employees, family, friends and acquaintances; their portraits were known worldwide as a symbol of Beautiful Hair Breck. The Breck Girls were ...