Anyone remember ringlets created with rags!

I can remember having my hair cut for the first time at the hairdressers and my mum asking for a 'razor cut and pin curl'.

I hated it, as prior to that i had always had my hair done up in pigtails for school and loose at the weekends. When it was short it never looked right and stuck out all over the place.

Never had rags though that was the previous generation i believe, my haircut was done in the late 50's early 60's.

My brother use to have 'short back and sides with not too much off the top!!!
He hated having his hair cut and would be moody for days after!!!

Certainly do Galen she had a very BBC accent! I also remember The Woodentops, Muffin the Mule and Andy Pandy. Children' Hour and Watch with Mother I'm not going to admit to Listen with Mother!

I longed for big fat sausage ringlets like the little girl down the road. Her's were blonde too which was another thing to envy. My hair was small mousy plaits.
My mother said she didn't know how to do it but eventually gave in to nagging enough to ask the Mum down the road. It seemed to take ages to do. The next morning I had pathetic little mousy ringlets. I can still remember the disappointment.

I wasn't allowed to grow my hair long. My mother always had my hair permed! I hated it.

Yes!!!!!! You are the first one that I have come across that does. I remember all the costumes.

I grew my hair as I wanted to look like the children's to star called Jennifer.
Anyone remember Jennifer and the flower fairies?

Oh my goodness, what a half forgotten memory came flooding back when I read this thread. My grandmother insisted on putting the rags in very tightly and they hurt like hell, and then what a stupid sight I looked the next morning !
I soon graduated to pig-tails (plaits) instead.

My hair curls naturally so I had ringlets till secondary school when my hair was cut short because we had swimming lessons and I couldn't fit a bathing cap on over my long hair. Later in the 70s when curly perms were all the rage friends of mine would wrap their wet hair round pipe cleaners to get the tight curly effect.
Can you still buy pipe cleaners I wonder?

My youngest went through a phase of wearing his hair in dreadlocks for a while after he left school. My mother could never remember the word for them and called them "ringlets".

I always had short hair but my sister was allowed to grow hers because she did ballet and she occasionally had it in ringlets, but I have no idea how it was done. Possibly with rollers?

I can quite understand the urge to put one's finger into the little tube of hair which is basically what ringlets are.

Another ringlet wearer here. I remember Mum putting rags in my hair while I was sat atop the mangle . A couple of years later, I had hair that was straight as a yard of pump water, it was blunt cut with a fringe, and I looked like Tiger Lily from one of the comics. Later, in the 60's I had an Afro perm , much to my daughter's disgust when I met her from school. I then kept my hair fairly short, until I had it really short and spiky. Now it is a bit longer and has got a wave in it, and I think I am finally satisfied, at least for now.

When the 60's arrived and the straight hair fashion I used to iron my curly hair straight, the number of times I burnt the back of my hand whilst trying to lay my hair on a towel on the ironing board with one hand and iron with the other hand I still have the scars. Its a wonder I didn't frazzle and burn my hair..

I used to have to recite my tables every morning while my mother did my hair! I had by that time eaten my breakfast.

I remember them very well but I never knew how they were done. My mother never did them and later i had long plaits. I remember sitting at the table with my cornflakes before going to school, and my mother stood behind me plaiting my hair.

I had rag ringlets too, I was blonde and had quite long hair, I have a photo of my ringlets (cringe), however the worst thing ever was using rollers as I got older. I just could not sleep in them and as curls were the thing in the 60s and 70s I missed out, I did have a few perms (cringe again), now I find my hair is curling narurally as I get older and I get so frustrated getting out the straighteners.

I had rags to make ringlets. There's a photo of me sitting on a piano stool in a frilly white dress, with ringlets and two ribbons in my hair. It's dreadful!!!! Ringlets were for weekends, during the week I had 2 long plaits,

I longed for ringlets but unfortunately I had thick dead straight hair cut into a bob with a ribbon perched on top. I was never allowed to grow my hair as "I might get nits". ?

As soon as I could, I grew my hair as long as possible and funnily enough at the same time it became more wavy and curly which was a nuisance as by this time it was the 60's and straight hair was the fashion.

By the 80's I was at long last in fashion as my hair was long and a tangled mass of curls that fell into ringlets. Then I had kids and had it cut.......

Yes, and if now I think I would telephone childline

Not for me as my hair was too fine, and short. A good friend had her hair in rags regularly, it fascinated me, definitely some rag-envy. .

I don't remember having rag ringlets but do remember kiss curls done with a hair grip. Why, I have no idea.

People used to like to put their fingers up my ringlets!!! Most annoying at times. I was a very blonde child and that fact alone some of the other children found fascinating.

There was a girl in my class who had ringlets and I really envied her.
But they were one of the many things my mother considered 'common'.
Eventually my pestering had the desired effect and Mum agreed to put my hair in rags.
But she obviously lacked the necessary manual dexterity and the next day my hair was a mass of bizarre kinks

My mother used to put rags in my hair on a Saturday night, ready for Sunday school in the morning. That was in the late 40s to early 50s, but I did quite like the result, the rest of the time it was in plaits, or flying all over the place!

I had extremely straight hair , but with a strange kink in some parts , my hair was plaited damp so it had strange waves when loosened . Then I had a fringe cut and ... ! permed !!!! , the rest was in two plaits , seems I looked like the ovaltine ad child ... sigh . Then she decided I looked like Margaret O'Brien so had to grow out the fringe and wear my plaits scraped back as far as she could scrape them . My younger , prettier sister had dark curly hair and it was lovingly left alone .. grrrrrrrrr . I did have the rag ringlets , but they fell out after 10 minutes

Yes rags or pipe cleaners!

Yes - I had ringlets all through the 40s - never actually minded the rags - my mother never did them so tight they hurt me.
When I went to grammar school they were changed to plaits which did keep my hair tidy - I had them cut off when I was 14 and can still remember the awful sound of the scissors as the hairdresser cut through them. My father was furious. Soon after this the fashion for long hair returned and everyone was growing their hair and putting it up in a but or chignon. I would not grow my hair and have never done so since.