I must draw your attention to a woman of the early 20th Century who was perhaps the first woman to shave her head (and PAINT it, no less) for art (as opposed to for religious reasons): Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, one of the most compelling figures (male or female) of the New York Dada scene - Recently there has been published a wonderful scholarly biography of the Baroness entitled BARONESS ELSA by Irene Gammel - There is a brief online biography at the link below, from which I excerpt the following account:

"An observer of the times, Allen Churchill, relates that her head was shaved and painted with a "bright vermillion lacquer" (The Improper Bohemians: A Re-creation of Greenwich Village in Its Heyday, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1959). In "CAMPING UNDER GLASS: The ghost of Florine Stettheimer, remote and glittering, evokes a period between the wars in a new show at the Whitney" (Time Magazine, September 18, 1995), Robert Hughes recounts, "The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple." Matthew Josephson recounts having seen her marching around Washington Square, "wearing an inverted coal scuttle for a hat, a vegetable grater as a brooch, long ice-cream spoons for earrings, and metal teaballs attached to her pendulant breasts. Thus adorned and clad in an old fur coat, or simply a Mexican blanket, and very little underneath, she would saunter forth." (Life Among the Surrealists New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962)

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Yes, indeed, it was the Baroness who invented Punk fashion (in WWI-era NYC), not Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood...