The Sixties Are Back!

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Originally Posted by DebTX

I have spanx in my drawer, but I've stopped wearing them. I've decided they're a torture device.

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OK - my curiosity gets the better of me.... what is one like. They look like the support top stuff from pantyhose, but I'll make a guess that they don't feel much like that?

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Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

In the 50's and 60's they had hair 'rats'- soft netted poofs that were in your shade of color and you held in place under your hair with bobby pins or wrapped your bun around:
http://www.adiscountbeauty.com/page73.html
They were better than these hard plastic Armpits...ooops I mean BumPits. :D

Women used to make their own hair rats from their own hair!:
http://www.shasta.com/suesgoodco/new...swear/rats.htm
Talk about a green solution! :D

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yes, i saw a rat holder in an antique shop. it was made of leaded crystal, very nice.