Monthly Archives: July 2008

How to create Marcel Wave hairstyles

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Create Beautiful Marcel Waves

We have republished a rare 1920s book that teaches how to recreate the marcel waves that added beautiful waves to the various womens hairstyles of the 1920′s and 1930′s. The Marcel Wave is similar to the Finger Wave in appearance, but the Marcel is more permanent due to the use of a hot curling iron.

It is difficult to find good information on marcel waves. These marcel waving waving lessons were created by an experienced hair stylist of the 1920′s, so there is no better or more accurate information available than is contained in the lessons.

There are 8 detailed lessons which teach you the basics and variations of marcel waving, and another 9 very basic lessons on the popular 1920′s bobbed hairstyles.

The illustrations and instructions in “Marcel Waving Techniques” have been selected to help you master the intricacies of marcel waves. You will learn the skills necessary to recreate stylish 1920′s and 1930′s marcel waves from a top hair stylist of the late 1920′s and early 1930′s.

Click on the link below to learn more about this book on Marcel Waves.
“Marcel Waving Techniques”

Bobbed Hairstyles – 1920s Cutting and Styling

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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 to create a hairstyle which will have lines and beauty that enhance a persons charm.

The 119 illustrations and instructions in “1920′s – 30′s Haircutting and Styling” have been selected to help you master the intricacies of individual hair cutting and styling. You will learn the skills to recreate stylish 1920′s and 1930′s Bobbed hairstyles from someone who was the foremost exponent of the art.

This book is primarily about customized cutting and styling techniques for bobbed hairstyles. It assumes you already know how to water-wave, marcel, and finger-wave. There are lots of photos of beautifully waved bob hairstyles to provide ideas, inspiration, and examples of completed hairstyles to complement each of the cutting and styling lessons.

Chapters include information on -

  • Thinning and Tapering
  • Cutting and Thinning Hair for Permanent Waving
  • Hair Cutting with Scissors
  • Tapering
  • Shingling
  • Cutting Hair with a Razor
  • Hair Form and Structure
  • Layer Hair Cutting
  • Corrective or Alteration Hair Cutting
  • Bangs

“Haircutting and Styling Techniques of the 1920′s and 1930′s” is available for purchase online. For more details on content and price Click Here

How to do Finger Waves

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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 to find good information on finger waves. These finger waving waving lessons were created by an experienced hair stylist of the 1920′s, so there is no better or more accurate and authentic information available than is contained in the lessons.

The illustrations and instructions in “Finger Waving Techniques” have been selected to help you master the intricacies of finger waves. You will learn the skills necessary to recreate stylish 1920′s and 1930′s finger waves from a top hair stylist of the late 1920′s and early 1930′s.

Click here to find out more about 1920′s “Finger Waving Techniques”.

Diesel Engined Plane

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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, are driven by Diesel engines. Nor is the Diesel engine wholly new in the air, a number of workers having attempted more or less successfully for several years to use engines of this type in airplanes. What is news is the length of the Diesel-engined plane’s flight and the perfect performance of the engine.

A Diesel engine is inherently about twice as economical of fuel, gallon for gallon, as an ordinary gasoline engine; moreover it burns a low grade of fuel which is cheap. Compounded, these two factors cut the fuel cost of the Packard plane’s 650 mile trip from about $24, the estimated cost had gasoline been used, to $4.68. The Diesel engine quite closely resembles a gasoline engine— there are the same cylinders, pistons, and cranks, but the fuel is ignited by compression without any “spark.” When any gas is compressed it is thereby heated, for the heat originally in it stays there and is also “compressed,” the temperature multiplied. Thus a bicycle pump becomes heated. Compressed sufficiently the vaporized fuel reaches the high temperature of combustion and is exploded. The spark of the ordinary gasoline engine is thus dispensed with in the Diesel engine. Incidentally this means that the airplane can listen in with its wireless during flight, whereas the sparks of the ordinary engine, so near by, prohibited this.

Heretofore Diesel engines have been too heavy for airplanes; it is only a few years since the Germans reduced their weight enough to use them even in motor trucks. The whole evolution has been a matter of designing a light enough yet strong enough Diesel engine for airplanes, and it looks as if it were almost here for general use. When it comes, cruising range will be greatly increased. The effect of this on commercial flying, exploration flights, and war is likely to exceed one’s first expectations.

Source: Outlook Magazine 1929

Air Rivalry

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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 a silver ceremonial spade in his eagerness to break ground for a $25,000,000 Ford plant in England, designed to supply Britain with 300,000 cars yearly and to furnish parts for the Continent.

A few weeks ago the Ford Company, largest in the skies, announced a slash in prices on airplanes. The public looked inquiringly at General Motors. With a characteristic nourish that organization has leaped into the aircraft field; it has acquired virtual control of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation, Ford’s runner-up. That Ford-General Motors competition will mean much to the future of aviation seems assured. Last year 4,346 planes were produced in the United States. Hereafter the annual output is likely to be much larger.

Such developments as these may be more meaningful, though they attract less attention, than long hops or even such speed and stunt flying as that for which Lieutenant A. J. Williams was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, though distance flights, speed tests, and stunting, when properly conducted, make important contributions to the practical side of air travel. The Graf Zeppelin’s second attempt to reach the United States from Germany indicated that there is still much to be done on this side. That it was able to land safely, with four of its five engines stalled, may have been due to good fortune as well as to the undoubted skill of its skipper and the cooperation of French air officials.

Source: Outlook – May 29, 1929

End of the Flapper Era

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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 organ of the younger social sets of some thirty of the principal American cities.

According to an investigation which has been conducted by members of the Junior League throughout the country it has been revealed that the flapper has sung her swan song in north, south, east, and, west. “Those hard-boiled little things with shaved necks have gone completely out of’ style,” says one active Chicago member of the Junior League.

“This year’s style in young girls is to be quiet, conversational, and terribly in earnest about careers.”

Another article in the magazine, written by four members of the Junior League in different parts of the country, says that the flapper was a post-war creation. Her hair overnight resembled that of a Hottentot; her skirts ended about her knees; she sneaked her brother’s cigarettes, and swore like a trooper. She chewed gum—great wads of it—vigorously and incessantly. Her make-up was as crude as a clown’s.

MISS 1928.

Miss 1928 on the other hand, is much more subtle and polished, and she wears black satin instead of cerise. She blends rouge evenly and inhales cigarettes gracefully without puffing furiously and, unlike her predecessor, she drinks her liquor from a teacup rather than from a flask.

One Connecticut damsel gives the following recipe for the flapper:—”Take two bare knees, two rolled stockings, two flapping goloshes, one short skirt, one lipstick, one powder puff, 33 cigarettes, and a boy friend with flask. Season with a pinch of salt and dash of pep, and cover all with some spicy sauce, and you have the old-time flapper.

“Then you have me real modern American flapper: Two bare knees, two thinner stockings, one shorter skirt, two lipsticks, three powder puffs, 132 cigarettes, and three boy friends, with eight flasks between them”