Braids have always been popular in black culture not only because they are fashionable but because they also have some cultural significance. There are different braiding styles to suit different tastes but the most enduring style of all is the box braid. We could go on and recount the origins of the style and trace it back to African origins like how African women wore their hair, how they braided it and how they adorned those braids with beads and shells to indicate their social status, religion and seven marital status but that as a whole different story. What we can talk about is how this hair style has endured over the years and why it has withstood the fickle nature of fashion and transcended cultures remaining relevant to this day Rise in Popularity …show more content…
This is because a lot of the 80s and 90's (besides Ms Jackson) celebrities and style icons wore box braids. We saw them on red carpets, in movies and TV shows, on the covers of style magazines and on runways. Grammy awards winning artists like Brandy made this style popular, hip hop artist like Da Brat made them “street”. When Janet Jackson made her film debut with Tupac Shakur in the movie “Poetic Justice” every young black girl wanted hair just like Janet's, big chunky and long. Box Braids have endured and continue to be worn as a statement transcending the fashion and pop cultural evolution. They have been worn by the latest fashion and style icons like Regina King, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Joy Bryant, Yara Shahidi, Tia Mowry, Jhene Aiko, Kendall Jenner, Eva Marcille, Zoe Kravitz, Beyoncé and her sister Solange. Janet Jackson and Brandy have continued to wear box braids off and on again and so do a lot