Anyone remember ringlets created with rags!

Correction: "I DON'T think" .

My daughter has very straight hair. When she was at school she wanted a perm so Sunday evening once I put rags in her hair, she kept them in all night and in the morning when I removed the tags her hair was beautifully curled. Her friends at school all thought she had had the perm that she had wanted but by Monday evening she'd had enough of curly hair so we washed it and to her friends surprise on Tuesday she went to school with her normal straight hair! Never to be done again.

My mother tried, really tried, to put my long straight hair in ringlets for parties and high days. But my hair was thick and very fine (still is!) and, as she took the rags out my hair, it quietly unwound itself, virtually straight except for a slight wave. So it was back to plaits, turned up into knockers with big ribbons for parties and the like.

I would have loved them, in the 1940s, a pretty classmate named Adele had shiny, bouncy, ringlets. I would also have liked plaits but got long straggly bunches instead. My mother added a single large curl firmly gripped on top of my head, odd, that!
Later my teenage mid '50s Bardot style ponytail fell naturally into one ringlet which I liked, with a fringe which I had not been allowed when I was younger as apparently a fringe was 'common'!!

Had to have ny hair in rags every night for a week when I was playing Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Ernest.

I'd forgotten all about that until I read this thread.

I was obviously born common ! My hair always fell onto my face no matter what my mother or, later, I did to it. As a result I have had a fringe all my life, except for those periods when my hair kept falling on my face and annoying me because I was trying to manage without a fringe.

I had average straight hair not real thick. My mom would pull it back in a tight pony tail eventually giving me a receding hair line. She'd sit me down in front of her legs and put it in foam rollers for church. I remember her leg stubble stabbing my arms. Those curlers would give me terrible curls and make dents in my hair. Not very becoming or comfortable to sleep in. I do remember trying rags for fun as a teenager but not often.

I so envied little girls with straight shinny hair with fringe that could turn upside down on the monkey bars and jump back up and ever hair fell back in place!

I had ringlets made with rags, I hated it. Now I have lovely straight hair.I would never have put my daughter through that, luckily for her, she was born with wavy hair.