KIT, HOME PERMING
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- "GLOW PERMANENT"
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1969
- Materials
- CARDBOARD, PLASTIC, PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P20190010014
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- "GLOW PERMANENT"
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1969
- Materials
- CARDBOARD, PLASTIC, PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 13.8
- Length
- 4.7
- Width
- 9.2
- Description
- A. CARDBOARD BOX, 9.2CM WIDE X 13.8CM TALL X 4.7CM LONG. BOX IS PACKED WITH PLASTIC PERM-ROLLER CURLERS WITH PAPERS ATTACHED; BOX HAS BILINGUAL TEXT PRINTED IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH; BOX HAS WHITE TEXT PRINTED ON BLACK BACKGROUND ON FRONT, “SUPER VALUE”; BOX IS WHITE WITH PINK AND BLUE WAVE-STRIPES RUNNING ACROSS; FRONT OF BOX HAS BLACK PRINTED TEXT, “REGULAR, GLOW HOME PERMANENT, NEW “NO-MIX” FORMULA”; RIGHT SIDE OF BOX HAS BLACK PRINTED TEXT “GLOW, REGULAR FOR NORMAL HAIR, HOME PERMANENT, WITH NEW “NO-MIX” FORMULA, PERFECT FOR CHILDREN TOO!”; BOTTOM OF BOX HAS BILINGUAL TEXT IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH, WITH PINK TEXT “CONTENTS:” AT TOP, BLACK TEXT BELOW “4 FL. OZ. REGULAR WAVING LOTION, 3 ½ FL. OZ. NO-MIX-FORMULA CREAM NEUTRALIZER, DIRECTION FOLDER, 70 END PAPERS”, AND PINK TEXT AT BOTTOM, “DISTRIBUTED BY SIMPSON-SEARS AND SIMPSON’S”. TOP OF BOX HAS WHITE SALES STICKER WITH BLUE PRINTED TEXT, “8 57900, SIMPSON’S-SEARS, 2/S, $1.29” WITH BLUE INK HANDWRITTEN OVER “2/149”. TOP OF BOX HAS BLACK TEXT INSIDE PINK CIRCLE, “GLOW” AND BLACK TEXT BESIDE CIRCLE, “’NO-MIX’ FORMULA”. BOX IS HEAVILY STAINED AND WORN AT EDGES; TOP EDGE OF BOX IS WORN AND TEARING AT EDGES; OVERALL GOOD CONDITION. B. FOLDED PINK PAPER INSERT, 12.8CM LONG X 6.4CM WIDE. INSERT HAS BLACK TEXT ON FRONT, “GLOW, HOME PERMANENT, FOR A NATURALLY-LOVELY, LASTING WAVE, SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP DIRECTIONS”; BACK OF PAPER HAS BLACK TEXT, “YOU WILL BE THRILLED TO SEE HOW EASILY YOUR NEW GLOW PERMANENT WAVE CAN BE BRUSHED AND COMBED INTO PLACE, WE SUGGEST GLOW HAIR SPRAY TO KEEP YOUR HAIR BEAUTIFULLY NEAT ALL DAY”. PAPER IS FOLDED AND FEATURES BILINGUAL ENGLISH AND FRENCH INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE “GLOW HOME PERMANENT” SET. PAPER HAS WHITE AND YELLOW DISCOLORATION ON FRONT AND BACK; LOWER LEFT CORNER IS TORN; BOTTOM EDGE OF FOLDED PAPER IS BENT AND WORN; BACK OF FOLDED PAPER HAS BROWN STAINING; OVERALL GOOD CONDITION.
- Subjects
- TOILET ARTICLE
- Historical Association
- PROFESSIONS
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- ON JUNE 5, 2019, COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED CAROL DARMODY REGARDING HER DONATION OF OBJECTS RELATED TO HER PARENTS, IRENE (NEE NAGY) AND JOHN FROUWS. ON THE PERM KIT, DARMODY SHARED, “I THINK THIS IS…THE DEADLY PERM SOLUTION. I HAD NATURALLY CURLY HAIR, AND LONG HAIR, IN HIGH SCHOOL. MOM WOULD PUT THAT SOLUTION ON. IT MUST HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE FOR MY HAIR! AND, JUST PULL MY HAIR, TO HAVE IT STRAIGHT BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD MAKE FUN [OF IT]—IT WASN’T COOL TO HAVE BUSHY HAIR IN HIGH SCHOOL. KIDS WOULD MAKE FUN OF YOU…IT WAS COOL TO HAVE STRAIGHT HAIR. SHE WOULD IRON IT ON THE IRONING BOARD TOO, BUT MOST OF HER [OLDER] CLIENTS WANTED CURLS…IF YOU’VE GOT CURLY HAIR, SHE WOULD PUT THAT AWFUL [PERM SOLUTION ON] AND PULL [THE HAIR]…THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER BOTTLE THAT NEUTRALIZED IT.” “[THERE WERE] THE LITTLE PAPERS WITH THAT DEADLY SOLUTION…I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY ‘50S, AND THEN IT GOES UP…I DON’T THINK PAST ‘60S…[OF] DIFFERENT PERM SOLUTION STUFF.” ON HER MOTHER’S HAIRDRESSING, DARMODY RECALLED, “SHE TOOK THE HAIRDRESSING COURSE, I THINK IT WAS 1937, IN CALGARY, AND SHE REALLY LOVED HAIRDRESSING. SHE DID VOLUNTEER HAIRDRESSING FOR YEARS AT EDITH CAVELL, EVEN LATER IN LIFE. SHE TOOK IT VERY SERIOUSLY, AND LOVED DOING IT. SHE DID [HAIR FOR] NEIGHBOURS, FRIENDS, RELATIVES, BOYFRIENDS, GIRLFRIENDS, DAD…IT WAS ALWAYS A BIG PART OF HER LIFE…NOT REALLY FOR MONEY, JUST THE BARTERING THING, LIKE MAYBE SOMEONE WOULD MAKE HER COOKIES...” “[MOM] DIDN’T DO IT EVERY DAY, BECAUSE [HER AND MY DAD] WERE BUSY—AND THEY WOULD BABYSIT. [MY PARENTS] NEVER HAD GRANDKIDS, SO THEY BABYSAT ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS ON NORMANDY…IT WASN’T LIKE A COMMERCIAL OPERATION…AN AUNT WOULD PHONE, ‘I NEED MY HAIR CUT.’ ‘COME ON OVER.’ OR, SHE WOULD GO OVER THERE. AND, MY MOM ALWAYS DROVE, SO SHE WOULD GET AROUND.” “[DURING THE WAR, MOM WAS] HAIRDRESSING, AND WORKING FOR TCA, PREPARING FOOD FOR THE PILOTS.” “IT WOULDN’T BE A LOT [OF MONEY THAT SHE MADE]…BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULDN’T BE SPLURGING TO HAVE THEIR HAIR DONE [DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S]…MOM DOES REMEMBER DOING THE MADAME’S [HAIR]…I DON’T KNOW THE ONE…[THAT WAS WHEN] PROSTITUTES AND MADAMES WERE ALLOWED TO SHOP IN LETHBRIDGE [IN AMMENDMENTS TO THE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, DARMODY NOTED, "THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE DISCRIMINATION TOWARD PROSTITUTES AT THE TIME. FOR A TIME, PROSTITUTES WERE ALLOWED TO SHOP IN LETHBRIDGE ONLY ONE DAY PER WEEK"], BUT SHE DID HAVE A MADAME FOR SURE…MOM CONSIDERED HERSELF A GOOD HAIRDRESSER. MY FRIENDS MIGHT DISAGREE, BUT…SHE DID HAVE A FEW INTERESTING CLIENTS, FOR SURE, WHEN SHE STARTED…[IN THE] LATE ‘30S, DURING THE WAR…IT SHOULD BE NOTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, MOM DIDN’T KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST HAIR STYLES. WHEN I BECAME A YOUNG ADULT, I OFTEN REFUSED TO LET HER CUT OR STYLE MY HAIR.” ON WHERE HER MOTHER DID HAIR, DARMODY SHARED, “I CAN’T REMEMBER HOW THAT WORKED…THERE IS NO PICTURE OF MOM IN A SHOP, SO I’M NOT SURE. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN HAIRDRESSING PLACES…THE MADAME MIGHT HAVE COME TO THE HOUSE. MOM WOULD HAVE HAD AN APARTMENT.” DARMODY ELABORATED ON HER MOTHER’S PASSION FOR HAIRDRESSING, NOTING, “SHE NEVER STOPPED [DOING HAIR]. WELL, WHEN SHE GOT ALZHEIMER’S, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS FOR HER TO HAVE SCISSORS, SO SHE PROBABLY STOPPED LATE…CLOSE TO 2000…SHE LOVED IT…EVEN JUST TO CUT DAD’S HAIR, AND THE ODD NEIGHBOR’S HAIR. SHE USED A RULER [TO MEASURE THE LENGTH TO BE CUT] WITH MINE. I DON’T THINK I LET HER [CUT MY HAIR WHEN I BECAME AN ADULT]…IN THE EARLY ‘90S, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN VOLUNTEERING A LOT AT EDITH CAVELL, AND IT’S KIND OF IRONIC, BECAUSE IT BOTHERED HER, GOING TO THE NURSING HOME, BECAUSE SHE KNEW ALL THESE PEOPLE [SHE OFTEN WOULD BE UPSET TO SEE PEOPLE SHE KNEW FROM THE PAST SUFFERING FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND NEGLECT]…SHE WOULD MAKE THEM FEEL HAPPY [BY DOING THEIR HAIR]…IT WAS FREE…SHE DIDN’T DO IT FOR MONEY. THEN, SHE ENDS UP IN A SIMILAR SITUATION [BEING PLACE IN CARE FACILITY IN 2001, BECAUSE SHE HAD ALZHEIMER’S], BUT DAD DEALT WITH HER HAIR. HE WOULD JUST CUT IT STRAIGHT, BUT IT SUITED HER.” “SHE WAS A BIT MORE EXTROVERTED THAN DAD, AND JUST THAT CLOSE CONTACT WITH PEOPLE, AND MAKING SOMEONE FEEL HAPPY, WHOEVER THAT PERSON WAS. AND, IF THAT PERSON DIDN’T HAVE MONEY, IT DIDN’T MATTER – JUST MAKING THEM FEEL BETTER.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION AND COPIES OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE P20190010001-GA.
- Catalogue Number
- P20190010014
- Acquisition Date
- 2019-06
- Collection
- Museum
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