The trend started as flat wings of hair affixed to each side of the head. My friend Dierdre was the first to have them. This was in high school.
By college, we were all trying to achieve some version of Farrah-ness. Collective hair hasn't been that large since. It took heavy curling iron use and acres of Final Net (or maybe Sassoon) spray.
There were also hot rollers. Everyone had a different hot-roller technique. A popular one in this group was to make a very high pony tail and then roll different strands of it out from the center. Then, you'd work down your head in rows, rolling the subsequent layers of hair. And you'd hang around for a while as the warm, spiky curlers cooled down.
I'm the brunette Farrah wannabe in the turqoise Izod shirt. (God, did we all have those, too?)
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For the love of god, we must never return to those days.
I met my wife there which reminds me to find her Farrah hair pictures
Fun post, Rated
And, Monsieur Chariot, I think there are a lot of "skunk" stripes, a la Aniston, and that takes coloring, which is more permanent and costly than merely hot rolling. (I wouldn't have pulled that off in college.) Her hair also requires blowing out with a blow dryer and, interestingly, for all that work, a supposedly "effortless" look is achieved, as effortless as it was supposed to appear with Farrah.
There will always be crazes and followers. Skirt lengths, shoe heights, purse sizes, eyeglasses, and hair are a few quick ways to change fashions.
That said, a piece in the New York Times today posited that it may be difficult to obtain Farrah-level ubiquity today, as there are so many media outlets, and that is probably also true, so perhaps the fashion crazes are watered down the same way. (Or they come from the mall more than they do celebrities.)
In watching the coverage this weekend, I remembered that I also permed my hair, a la Michael Jackson's look in the mid 80s (also Madonna influenced). I'll try to dig up some of those pictures as well.