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How to create Marcel Wave hairstyles

How to create Marcel Waves – a 1920s hairstyle book that has been republished in electronic format for downloading.

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Bobbed Hairstyles – 1920s Cutting and Styling

Create Beautiful Bobbed Haircuts
Learn how to create the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920’s and 1930’s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. Learn how to cut and mould to the contours of the head and neck…the natural hair lines…and the facial features. Learn how to emphasize good features and minimize defects [...]

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How to do Finger Waves

Finger Waves from the 1920’s and 1930’s
We have republished a rare 1920’s book on Finger Waving, in electronic form.
It teaches how to do finger waves in the way that added style and variation to the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920’s and 1930’s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era.
It is difficult [...]

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Diesel Engined Plane

Diesel-engined airplane
QUITE A FLURRY appears to have been caused at Langley Field, Virginia, at a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics when a Diesel-engined airplane owned by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit descended after a 650 mile flight. The Diesel engine is not a new development—hundreds of merchant ships, even ocean liners, [...]

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Air Rivalry

THE FORD-GENERAL MOTORS rivalry has gone abroad. It has even ascended into the clouds. Let General Motors announce that its new automobile plant near Antwerp, Belgium, is nearly completed; Ford buys a site at Edgewater, N. J., at which to assemble Ford parts and load ships for the export trade, and his son Edsel bends [...]

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End of the Flapper Era

1928’s STYLE IN YOUNG GIRLS
Gone is the flapper. In her place has come the young woman with poise, of soft-toned and correct speech, soberly dressed, and without closely cropped hair. Such, at all events, are the specifications of Miss 1928 as portrayed in the current number, of the “Junior League Magazine,” which is the national [...]

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