Remember the styles for clothes and fashion in the 1960s? Some do because you can still see Babyboomers in drain pipe jeans and T shirts in most towns up and down the country. Sometimes the man’s hair style seems remarkably nostalgic too. Women of course can say that wearing drain pipes is up to date since they have come back into fashion.

Hair styles have changed a great deal over the decades. In the early sixties women going to work in factories often kept their hair in rollers covered by a scarf, so that they would look their best at weekends. Shampoos and sets were the norm along with back combing and gallons of hair spray. Then just when it seemed that we would all get starched in spray, Vidal Sassoon came along with his boutique in Bond Street, London. He helped to also make the sixties a time of simple hair styles and make up, and some less harsh techniques, such as using lemon juice and sunshine to create streaks.

For men, hair styles were dominated by so called hair dressings such as Brylcreem and Brilliantine. Where women called a halt to what our parents called heavy petting, because of the risk of spoiling their carefully coiffed and sprayed hair style, when it came to men, the advert jingle “they love to run their fingers through your hair” became well known in the hair dressing advert. Actually, no they didn’t. And if they did, they would have to go off to wash their hands because of the grease. So loving, something the sixties were supposed to be famous for, was hindered by hair fashions of the time.

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