Vintage lady grumpiness...

[reetpleat]

Oh, I dunno...

(From the London Daily Mirror, November 17, 1936)

CHANGED HAIR TO ORCHID BLONDE AND WON SUCCESS

If you get tired of being in the chorus, turn up one morning with mauve hair.

Miss Towyna Thomas, who is twenty-three and comes from Carmarthenshire, did this, and now she has a part in the new revue "To and Fro," which opens at the Comedy Theatre, London, on November 26.

Towyna's hair is naturally platinum blonde. "I was so tired of being platinum blonde and seeing almost every girl with the same coloured hair," she told me, "that I decided to have my hair mauve. No one seems to have thought of that. I call it 'orchid blonde.'"

"I can't say I like it much in daylight, but my work is the most important thing to me and it won me a part -- and I hope it will help me realise my ambition to be a comedienne."

Louis JOrdan has a song about a woman who "Dyed your hair Chartreuse"

 

[buddy5909]

I repsonded to your blog post, but just had to say it here as well.

I especially love point 7. I look at my grandmother and I see so much of what MY mother missed out on by being a hippie and fighting against her norms (not saying the "hippie" times were bad or anything!). As a result, I too have missed out on a few things as well since my mother didn't learn them to pass on. I now find myself teaching HER how to do her make-up and wear shapewear or how to behave in a formal setting. I love my mom to death, but sometimes I wish her generation hadn't been so rebellious.

I feel the SAME way about my mom. She'll asks me, "who's singing that song?" and it could even be a song from her generation and she won't know. I have self taught myself hair and make-up because Lord knows my mom knows NOTHING about any of it. lol