Meet the Scrunchie Queen

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, a tangled tale from the archives. Kate, a “hair is life” kind of person, asks about the invention that keeps her hair out of her face. Hair stylist and archaeologist Janet Stephens takes us into the history of hair care, and scrunchie queen Rommy Revson tells the story of an invention that changed up-do’s forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have reached every little thing, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair.
0:06.4	Hair is life.
0:07.4	Or I'm wondering who invented the elastic hair tie.
0:12.8	Hello.
0:13.8	Hey Kate, it's Flora from ELT.
0:18.4	Hi.
0:19.4	Are you like a hair is life kind of person?
0:23.2	I mean, I'm emotionally attached to my hair.
0:26.3	Like you have that tattooed on you or no?
0:28.2	No, for sure not.
0:29.8	No, but you would say hair is everything.
0:32.4	I mean, hair is a lot of things.
0:34.4	It's good enough.
0:35.4	Okay, that's as far as you can take me here, Flora.
0:37.6	It's a lot of things.
0:41.0	But I do feel like my identity is threatened when it doesn't go well.
0:44.4	What do you mean?
0:45.2	Give me an example.
0:47.0	The number of times that I've walked into my stylist and said,
0:49.6	I want it shorter, but still long enough to put on top of my head.
0:54.2	And then they get chatty and they get creative.
0:57.4	And then by the time I leave,
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