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Small miracle today

September 29th, 2012 at 12:11 am

Expected to pay $140 for cut and colour, only charged $60. I tipped $15, as I did have a bang trim. But now, ha ha! we have enough left over to have both the males of the house get their hair cuts and to tip.

Saw a 1962 McCall's issue today at the styling salon. Man, those magazines were large! And they were more general interest, with top-shelf fiction, and humour from Johnny Carson (one month before he replaced Jack Paar on _The Tonight Show_) and Art Buchwald. But we can't have nice things like that now. Would love to dress the way Suzy Parker did, but good luck finding size 10 or size 12 vintage...

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3 Responses to “Small miracle today”

  1. My English Castle Says:
    September 29th, 2012 at 02:34 am 1348886040
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    Did it have Betsy McCall paper dolls? I used to love those. Why the good deal on the hair?

  2. creditcardfree Says:
    September 29th, 2012 at 03:44 am 1348890244
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    Geez...I don't think I've ever paid over $40 on my hair! I'm blessed with naturally curly hair and I only have a few white hair right now. Including tip, I last spent $9.50 on my haircut. Glad you saved over your expected amount.

  3. PauletteGoddard Says:
    September 29th, 2012 at 05:07 am 1348895227
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    I don't remember the Betsy McCall paper dolls: I Googled the October 1962 issue, the one I saw today, and didn't find any. We were dazzled by the saturated hues of a giant-sized Denver sandwich using bleached white bread. There's a book Can She Bake a Cherry Pie: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century in which author Mary Drake McFeeley traces the evolution of US home cooking from the first Fannie Farmer cookbook to the Silver Palate era. The era of packaged food like Franco-American canned macaroni mixing it up in meals fresh from the kitchen as a novelty seems quaint and as bygone as "plate night" at the cinema.

    But anyway, this time I got a discount because I didn't **really** get a haircut. There was the briefest feathery snips on my bangs so they no longer reached past my nose, but not enough to be billed for a haircut. She did not trim the ends, and the scissors touching the ends I guess is what makes a proper cut. I tip her heavily because her prices are low, and she gives me advice on how to keep my hair healthy enough for it to grow longer than I have been able to let it grow for decades. I'm two-for-two in getting discounts for hair colour: the first time I gave her our book on Tijuana Bibles (solicited!) and she gave me a discount then too. She hasn't raised her prices in eleven years now: where I am she could raise them 20% and they'd still be cheap.

    I'm enamoured by nostalgia now: I wanna go check the library for those mid-century Mademoiselle story anthologies...

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