Jane Fonda looked very shaggable sporting that shag haircut.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

I thought Jane Fonda was at the height of her beauty in this movie, which is one of my favorites. I loved her hair and her clothesthe clothes you could wear today.
Paul McGregor, a hairdresser who was located on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, NYC did Jane Fonda's shag. I went with my sister went to the salon because she wanted Jane Fonda's haircut. The East Village was not a great area at the time. It was kind of run down neighborhood but it was right near "The Electric Circus" which was a famous "hippie" nightclub/disco. Lots of bands like the Grateful Dead played there.
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I love the hairstyle and think Miss Fonda looks gorgeous in the film. It frames her face perfectly.

the "Rachel" of its day (-{

I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday. I kept teetering between liking and not liking the hairstyle. Finally I realized that I would have liked it better if it were longer and slightly modified. Jane Fonda has great hair though, and the layers always fell into place perfectly.
Several years ago I read an offhand comment that after Klute was released, women everywhere went out and got this cut. I can only imagine how what a disaster it must have been for some women. Your hair really has to be the right texture for this style.
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I did dress like thatthe midi-length skirts, the boots, the shoulder bag. What a terrific look. And, for a number of years in the 70's, I sported the shag hair style, too. I didn't look as lovely as Fonda, but it all seemed to work well for me.
While I no longer have the shag, I still often have that same style of dressthe longish skirts, boots, etc. It really is a timeless and classic look, and it still works for me.
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I thought she looked fantastic in that cut. Between her hair and her clothes, she looked utterly sexy and cool. I would love to dress like that.

I love the haircut, hope it comes back! - could be that I love the era though (-: (yeah mrs bradys was a mullet, and not a good one)

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The only thing wrong with this hairstyle is the same with all layered hairstyles - the growing out part. If this haircut was cut properly, like Jane Fonda in this movie or Donna Mills in Play Misty for Me, it was beautiful. But it was a hard cut to get right. Mrs Brady's haircut was a mullet.

It was an ugly, ugly hairstyle.
Straight long hair was more in style in the city then. Why did they have to saddle Fonda with such awful hair?

Normally I'm anti-shag, but Jane's is gorgeous. She looks so beautiful in this film, and the hair frames her face perfectly. It also was so new at the time, really groundbreaking in the age of long hippie hair.
I think the real problem came later with the feathering, when people feathered the sides of the shag back and then glued it into place with hairspray.
Then again, I like Keith Partridge's shag too. Sometimes those flowing locks just worked in the early '70s. I so wanted one.

Gotta agree with you on this one. It's pretty hideous to me, no matter who's wearing it even David Bowie. Watching Klute for the first time tonight, it was just a bit too distracting, and i never really got into Jane Fonda's famously lauded performance (though i've never thought she was much of an actor anyway she's always rubbed me the wrong way). Good film otherwise though, even though it is lesser Pakula, the director of some of my very favorite films.

that escaped-idiot-on-the-loose hairdo.
LMAO!!! That was hilarious. If you don't mind, I think I'll have to use that line sometime.

Worst hairstyle of all time!!!

I agree, it's freakin' awful. It looks like what happens when a toddler gets ahold of a pair of scissors. I even found it hard to believe that Fonda would've been successful at picking up men with that escaped-idiot-on-the-loose hairdo.

Diana Ross rocks one on the cover of her
Last Time I Saw Him
album.
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I'm sorry, but I've always detested this haircut. (Carol Brady wore a variation of it, too.) I understand it's appeal to women at a time when they were taking on a more forthright, no-frills positionbut it's a blunt look that just doesn't look very good on anyone except for 12-year-uld boys, IMHO.
Donna Mills wears it in Play Misty for Me, as well.
Yes, Donna Mills wore the same cut in "Play Misty for Me", as did Judy Carne (of "Laugh-In" fame) back in the early 70's.
But I would say Carol Brady's cut resembled a mullet more than a shag.

I'm sorry, but I've always detested this haircut. (Carol Brady wore a variation of it, too.) I understand it's appeal to women at a time when they were taking on a more forthright, no-frills positionbut it's a blunt look that just doesn't look very good on anyone except for 12-year-uld boys, IMHO.
Donna Mills wears it in
Play Misty for Me,
as well.
It's kind ofprison-esque.

I just bought the 2005 rerelease of this book and in it's cover photo, Diane Arbus has always reminded me of Klute-Jane Fonda Shag hairstyle/leather pants. The photo was taken sometime in 1971 and Arbus committed suicide about a month after Klute was released (summer of 71). I've often wondered if she saw the movie and was influenced. I'm certain she would have related to Bree Daniels.
This link may not work, but It's the portrait by Eva Rubinstein, Arbus' student.
Diane Arbus: A Biography
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Diane-Arbus/Patricia-Bosworth/e/9780393326611
"What rotten sins I've got working for me. I suppose it's the wages." -Bedazzled (1967)

LOLOL!! The early 70s were so cool!!

If I'd really gotten "Shagged", I would have been tarred and feathered! (Mind you, I was only 13 at the time, lol.)

Getting "SHAGGED"!! Really, really cool!! Getting "Feathered"!! LOL!