Princess Setting New Hair Fashions

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East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia

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Princess Setting New Hair Fashions (About Anglia)

East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
Ipswich
13 Nov 1984
Sound

As the Princess of Wales changes her hair styles, salons create versions for their customers.

In November 1984 Diana, Princess of Wales, is wearing her hair longer, and has been trying some 1940s styles with her hair pinned up. At a hairdressing salon in Ipswich, Suffolk, similar styles are created in both daytime and evening versions.

Peter Tilson talks about the daytime style, which involves applying hair rollers, a spell under the hood drier, then brushing out, backcombing and pinning into shape, possibly over false hair inserts. He explains the previous popularity of the style in a simpler form during wartime for women working in factories and in military service. The evening version is worn longer, with tortoiseshell side combs. What do the other customers think of this new look?

The reporter was Surrey Beddows for this video, made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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