This gets my tag "hairstyles," a tag I've had for a long time, but I'm just noticing that there's another word "hairdo," and it has a retro feeling to it. The narrator of "What Happened to the Wet Set???" speaks of a time in the distant past when a woman had to have a hairdo and that meant putting your hair up in rollers. You put it up wet — that was called setting your hair — and you either sat under a hood or helmet style dryer or you just walked around or slept in them until the whole thing air dried. You just had to do it — do it yourself or, if you were lucky and not too frugal, you went into the beauty parlor once a week, like Joe Pera's grandmother, and had it done.@rose_chardonnay What Happened to the Wet Set??? #rollersets #vintagehair #nostalgia #vintagehairstyle #hairhistory ♬ original sound - Rosé Chardonnay
Then you never ever shampooed your own hair. You managed the hairdo between appointments. I remember magazine articles from the 1960s about how to keep the hairdo functioning over the course of the days. Key tricks: teasing and hairspray. Maybe a headband was added at some point. And there was always what there still is: the ponytail.
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What's my first-favorite TV series? I just told you, here. It's "How to With John Wilson."
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I am numb with thrips.
I like how his grandmother asks if he's bored while another old woman has a t-shirt that says, "If you're bored, you're boring."
Thinking about roller sets, I started wondering if they still make Dippity-Do. They do. It looks different now, not surprisingly, but the packages is kind of retro looking.
Ann,
Your description of the wet set is exactly how I kept my curly hair under control years ago. Several years ago when I broke my arm, I started going to a beauty salon once a week to have my hair washed and set. I still do! So much better to get done in one hour than to spend the day in curlers!
Pena can be amusing. The other guy - meh.
However, after watching both videos I think my testicles may have shriveled up a bit.
Confession - Mom had one of those dome dryers that blew warm air on your head and she would put my brother and I under it after we got our hair wet.
I remember that it felt really good.
Mom had an unreasonable fear of getting ones' hair wet.
The Hair Salon - where some of the local dirt gets shampooed out of your hair, but all the rest of the dirt on the neighborhood gets a full examination.
Older pictures of my aunts and mother show they had "Styled" hair in the 50s/60s. By the time I got old enough to notice in the 70s they didnt. Don't know what happened. maybe it was like the men's hairstyle commercial "The wet head is dead".
I like wilson he's interesting. Same with Pera.
I’m finally able to download TikTok from my sister’s handmedown (14 pro-Max it’s awesome) and TikTok won’t show me the video I click on here. I downloaded it just so I can do that, but nooooo. Why would I want that? It’s the story of my life.
“I like wilson he's interesting. Same with Pera.”
Yeesh. If you’re not bored it’s not because those guys aren’t trying.
“Then you never ever shampooed your own hair. You managed the hairdo between appointments. I remember magazine articles from the 1960s about how to keep the hairdo functioning over the course of the days. Key tricks: teasing and hairspray.”
I remember girls doing that sort of thing in the early 60s, when I was in high school. Then came the Great Watershed of the mid 60s. After that, girls didn’t do ‘dos anymore; at most they would iron their hair (yes, with a real iron, on a real ironing board) to try to look like Michelle Phillips (a worthy ambition, seldom achieved.) On the plus side, they also became more willing to ‘do’ it.
I'm trying to get my head around a "hyperbolic time chamber" @0:15.
Within the chamber, the passage of time must seem exaggerated.
But how can you exaggerate the the significance of the passage of time? Particularly inside a chamber where you are unburdened by the passage of time.
Yeah thats it
I am entertained.
I’ve loved Joe Pera since you first mentioned him (he has a Christmas special that’s been added to the yearly “must-watch” list), but I can only ever get a few episodes. He’s not available on streaming (at least not where I live), and he’s hasn’t released his show on DVD. He really needs to learn how to market himself.
Like Rabel, I am much less interested in the other guy, though my wife likes him well enough.
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