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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really interesting topic.

Hairstyles are the biggest change, I'd say. [b]Norah Efron [/b]said more than once in her essays that the biggest change for women was the use of hair color. It wasn't common for average folks until the 1960s with Clairol.

I think most older styles were really bad, too: short hair (but not interesting cuts), tight curls and tight styles, salon sets (like Nancy Reagan), or they kept their hair too long and wore a bun or braid. I think women were expected to control their hair upon growing up. I even remember my mother not liking my older teenage sisters' long, straight hair in the late 60s. Before that they wore shorter styles.

The other thing was that women used to wear dresses all the time before the 1970s. I know from my own body that I don't look great in a dress anymore because I don't have a youthful shape anymore. I look better in a separates now. Some women wore housedresses which were extremely unflattering. I remember my grandmother in the 1960s always wearing dresses which looked terrible on her thick middle--and these were expensive clothes--it didn't help. I would hate to have to wear a dress every day. She also had a kind of waved pageboy do, with her gray hair tinted blue! My other grandmother was super thin and wore skirt suits all the time, just to go out to the store. I never saw either in a pair of comfortable shoes.

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What’s with all of the Nora Efron comments recently? [/quote]

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