What do you do for fun when you're not gardening?

Last Christmas, my sister's husband got her this thing called a "maxi-glide" tool that straightens the worst hair anyone could have. The first time she used it she said she immediately got in her jeep and went driving with all the windows down so she could "do that hair flicking thing over my shoulders and be cool".

I said, "So how was it"?

She said, "It was unbelievable. I just kept driving and driving, and the next thing I knew, I was in Santa Barbara. I didn't even know who I was ! When I got home 4 hours later, my kids said, What's for dinner? And how long is you hair going to be like THAT? "

LOL Polly ! Polyester Leisure suits are one of the 3 worst things about the 70's
The other two were perms for men and disco.

I'll have to check into that. My hair has always been kinky curly.

that kitty mosaic is wonderful

on cats 101--animal planet channel , a gal was making purses from clippings of persian cats

seems some get their kitties shaved like poodles and she is a groomer that wanted to use the clippings
carded the fur just like sheep wool into yarn and knitted the purses

Actually JD, I kinda liked the silky shiny shirts that went with the polyester leisure suits...the ones with flowers and things all over. They were nice to sleep in. Except the collar was pretty bad.

And would you please send info on the straightening tool. My hair has not been straight in several centuries.

I had a perm years ago when my hair was quite long
they piggybacked 198 perm rods and had to use two applications to cover it

it was huge

so got home and cut it--I looked like a dandylion

Your perm discussion has brought up an old funny memory. My kid brother had the curliest head of hair (still does but now it is steel grey.) Back in the late 60's (yeah groovy) he decided that he needed straight hair to catch the gals.... And so he took to sleeping with a nylon stocking pulled completely over his dippity-doo'd head --pulled right down to his neck!! One morning, my straight off-the-boat macho sicilian father caught a glimpse of my brother sound asleep in his bed --stocking pulled way down, nose and lips smushed down and flat, and looking like he just robbed a bank... There was hell to pay that morning. Poor guy --even with the elaborate effort and the stocking...he ended up with plastered down wavy locks and in the Fort Lauderdale climate.... it ended up frizzing shortly after the stocking was put away for the day. Later on...he let his hair grow past his shoulders (that was a sight) --he looked like something from Jesus Christ Super Star --them were the days!

Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

I was a seventies teen. I hated the seventies and almost everyting to do with it. I thought everyone was a spoiled rotten brat back then and I was just a kid. I still think they are spoiled rotten kids, but now they're looking for the inheritence. Of course that would be all 70's kids except those on DG. We've seen the light!

Funny Rosie. How I remember Dippity Doo.

Aren't you too young to recall the 70s, JD?

Ahhhh the BeeGees.

Polly, did you ever iron your hair with a real iron?
It's a wonder I have hair left.

I was a teenager in the late 60s, loved the times. Oh how I wanted to move to CA and be a real hippie. Then came the 70s, and I too didn't care so much for them, but looking back there was a lot of good things that came out of the era.

People on DG have seen the light, and do know what's important. Family and flowers.

Yes Sharon, didn't work well. It would straighten for a little bit, and then frizz right back up. I had waist length hair. Actually it was beautiful, wavy and curly, but I didn't think so back in the 60s.

Oh yes, but it sure was pretty for about 10 minutes.
Smelled pretty bad when it scorched, though.

Polly, yes I saw that movie too.
Missingrosie, my brother had the same effect going on but they celebrated their curly long locks. They did a bicycle tour of the neighborhood...in the nude! The cops showed up and they jumped in the local lake. One of them refused to get out, he was concerned about shrinkage in the cold water. Aha ha ha stayin alive! lol

Do you remember how we could Dippity Doo and wrap the hair and it would be straight? That Dippity Doo had the most awful odor. My hairdresser has been having hard times (folks getting cuts/perms/colors less often) so he is moving to a salon where his rent is less.... the name of the new headquarters according to his "I've Moved" note is Doo or Dye......eeech.. I told him that I don't know if I can walk in with a straight face.

That story is hilarious Venu - shrinkage is a real concern at that age.

It was certainly a concern of his, I was too young to know what the shrink problem was. It only came to light for me on a Jerry Seinfeld program. Love doo or dye. I would go there just for the name...too funny

Hair stories - I love them since they are past and done. When I had loooong hair I had the same hairdresser who did Donna Summer's wigs. My hair was done in what was called back then a "gypsy." Thick as the dickens and twice as straight. He used to tell people getting it around the rods required a hammer and chisel. He was exhausted when I left. LOL Wish I had photos of it - my DH doesn't believe me. My present hairdresser won't do perms - not that I would consider one again. We're thinking of a buzz cut this summer.

You probably don't even remember when the song came out, Louise, way before the movie. The movie was about 1983 or 4. The song, I'm guessing '76 or 7.

Oh yes, the Dippity Doo wrap, around and around the head, secured with those horrible hairpin type things. It did work though. My gosh, I'd forgotten all that.

I can remember reading my old diary a few years ago from the 1960s, and having noted in there I washed my hair. Like it was a big deal. After I dippity dood it, I wouldn't wash it for a few days. Now I can't stand a day without washing my hair.

In case anyone doesn't know what we're speaking of.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/1960s-commercial-dippity-doo-hair-gel/1785821135

Kaper, not sure if you were gettting it curly or straight, but one thing I know you have lots of hair. Mine is wimp hair. Stupid stupid wimp hair. But it is shiny!

I remember the 'gypsy' -- I guess it made it all the way to NY.

Polly: I was in high school and college in the 70's so the memories are still vivid.

Sharon: Do a google search for Maxi-Glide it should be there. This thing is almost a lethal weapon. It comes with it's own generator. (Just kidding) It has teeth inside the blades, but it doesn't leave that burning hair odor. My sister's used to set there hair on orange juice cans and sleep all night under those old hair dryers with the vacuum hose.

Alright, I guess you can participate JD.

It probably came from NY, missingrosie. :-)

Yes, I did have a lot of hair. My mom had to thin it to put it in a pony tail because the bands would break all the time. When I went to 1st grade, I made her cut it because the little brat who sat behind me kept pulling it. She made a wig for my doll at Christmas that year. What a mom.

Maxi-Glide?? Isn't that a feminine hygiene product?

That's the thing, Venu...shiny.
Mine is so curly there is no shine. Even with dippity doo, I don't remember a shine.

Great commercial, Polly, I had forgotten that. I do remember that it didn't work in humidity.

Dyan Cannon was in a movie, and I can't remember what the movie was, or who else was in it, but my hair was like that...crazy wild. It would still be, but I keep it about an inch long now. Well, maybe 2 inches.

I think the Maxi part and the Glide part are both feminine products but I don't think together they make a product

Well it should be a product!

Venu...you're too funny !

Well Jeez, Mike, we're all too smart to let the glide slide....

Getting back to the 70s, I really miss the second half of the 60s and the early 70s because it was the only time men had to watch their weight the same way that women have always had to watch theirs. Starting in 1964, when the Beatles came over here wearing the tightest suits ever seen, and all the way up through the leisure suit era, men couldn't hide any extra fat by wearing baggy pants. Everyone looked so good then.

Once again I missed all the fun by going to sleep early. That's the punishment for not using some caffeine in the coffee.

My mom used to iron my aunt's hair. That was almost a century ago! The irons were heated on wood stoves and my aunt would actually put her head on the ironing board so my mom could iron it so it would be straight.

I wasn't a Dippity Doo gal but my mother was.

Those pointed collars on the shiny polyester shirts were awful and so were those Nehru shirts - yuk!

The girls who went for that braless look certainly have paid the price. Now they have to be careful running up steps and escalators are forbidden!

I didn't care for the too skinny gender bender look of the early seventies. Maybe because I was a tomboy and knew I could never pull off that look. Too many muscles.

When we moved to NJ in '63 I saw my cousins ironing each other's hair every day. I thought NJ people were crazy.

Jersey girls were always known for their hair.

Hair seemed to be the preoccupation of teenage girls since time began.

Louise, do you read Janet Evanovich? Her Stephanie Plum is a real Jersey girl.

Love Janet Evanovich! Great for a fun read.

I read one of them. Perfect for a beach read!

I've read every single one. Some several times. I'm reading Plum Spooky now.