HAIRDOS

 

all the characters in the old movies (1920's-early 1960's) had such coiffed hair....in the 20's and 30's,
at least half of the actresses in Hollywood were platinum blondes with marcelled hair, permanented hair....some kind of "processed hair", anyway.......which was then lacquered and lit.......beautiful helmets over faces with perfect skin, huge, long-lashed eyes and unusually thin, arching brows.........I would watch the old movies, as a kid, and wonder why
no one in my town looked like that.......maybe the local women just didn't have all that paraphernalia.....all the women in my family went to Rose's Beauty Shoppe and were made up to look like Susan Hayward Talullah Bankhead (who, with the relatively unknown Harry Townes, were from my neck of the woods)
or Ava Gardner......the then current Southern fashion icons......