Hairstyles of the Times

Enclosed is a snapshot taken of my mother and my aunt at the beginning of World War II. My mother had long raven hair, so black it shone with lights; my father loved that long black hair.

At the beginning of World War II, both my mother and my aunt had their hair “bobbed,” in keeping with the times. The curls shown in the photo are also something new, possibly Toni home perms. I still remember the smell of those Toni’s, an odor that pervaded the entire house! Does anybody remember “Rosie the Riveter?” She set the example for women throughout the war: cut your hair and go work at a factory, to replace a man who had gone to fight. The times, they keep “a changing.”

Fran Farlow, Gastonia, a member of Rutherford EMC