Anyone remember ringlets created with rags!

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.

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 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 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.

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 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'!!

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.

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.

Correction: "I DON'T think" .

I had to have all my hair cut off when in primary school as I kept getting nits. Later, when it grew long enough, plaits, then had it cut really short again.
I think my Mum ever got over the shame of the nits. She was a "nit nurse" in the secondary school.
I do remember those rag ringlets though.

I remember the rags too, my hair is fine and straight so the rag curls only lasted a short while. It was so uncomfortable to sleep in them. I remember amami, the ad went - Friday night is amami night.

I had the ringlets made from rags (torn up strips of old sheet) wrapped round damp hair (the early 1950s).

Mine were like Gagagran's - tied in two bunches with ribbons after a night of suffering trying to sleep with the rags in.
The effect was quite nice for parties, but not for every day.
My hair was more curly in those days, it's still wavy but unruly and no, I am not going to bed in rags again!

I escaped the rags but had to suffer rows of metal clips with jaggy teeth to give me wavy hair. The resultant waves were as stiff as a brush as my mother also used a liberal application of Amami (remember that? ) setting lotion. Hated them-always envied my brother who looked like a small cherub with clouds of blonde curls.

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Yes I remember ringlets, and after 1960. A friend used to have her hair styled that way by her mother. The girl had blonde hair. As you say maybe Shirley Temple was the star whom had once caused the style to become popular. Though my friend had long hair, and went to dancing classes. Maybe her parents were hoping she would be selected by a talent scout :- similar to what happened to Shirley Temple.

She became an office worker.

My mother also used rags for ringlets for my older sisters and me, only for going out though. For my DD's wedding we tried to do ringlets for my GDs who were flower girls, thinking we could pull them out and have a mass of curls instead of ringlets. They were too tight and it was very hard getting the rags out. GDs ended up with tight ringlets that we couldnt do much with. ?

In the sixties I was ironing my long blonde hair too Tanith though once I singed one side which made It go wavy half way down, not the desired dead straight look I wanted. I had to do the same thing with the other side of my hair so it matched.

Apologies if someone has mentioned this already (I haven't read the whole thread). The current method is to use folded wet wipes instead of rags. Minibags tried it on some of her hair—very effective.

Remember a ringletted friend getting them soaked in custard in the first year.

My mother really wanted a curly haired daughter and used to put my hair in pipe cleaners. It used to bend the hair as I remember.
Lovely of course to have dead straight hair once the 60s came. My curly haired pal used to iron hers.

My grandmother did them for me, then took me round her local shops to be admired. She even curled my hair with a hot poker put in the fire, then quickly cleaned in newspaper, I didn't like that, thought she was going to slip and burn my head, but she never did. She was the most undemonstrative of women, she had a hard life, but for some reason she took to me and she talked to me as if I was grown up.

My friend Gwen at primary school always had ringlets - I thought they were a bit fussy. I alternated between straight hair with a middle parting and ribbons each side, and fat plaits , sometimes looped up on them selves. . I had thick straight hair (still do.). When in my teens and 20s in the 1960s I grew it long but it tended to bush out. I find it much more manageable short these days!

I had all the flower fairy books and still do, and my granddaughter loves them too. But I don't remember Jennifer and the flower fairies on TV - was that a different set of flower fairies?

When I was young my next door neighbour friend had beautiful sort of "golden ginger" hair, and her gran always did it in long ringlets, which actually danced and gleamed in the sun - wonder what happened to her? My hair was always straight, did try rag wrapping at one time, and I also did it for my daughter just the once, because the result was a mass of tight tangles that she's always remembered with agony.

I still have my Flower Fairies books. I love all the illustrations. My GDs love them too.

I had a book "Jennifer and the flower fairies" I remember the bluebell fairy.

Fat sausage curls from pipe cleaners. I hated them.