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Volunteer for Pier 21’Looking like the past’

BILL SPURR Features Writer. (November 4, 2013). SLIDESHOW: Looking like the past. Thechronicleherald.ca. Reserved from http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1165038-slideshow-looking-like-the-past

Aware that a poorly utilized hair rat, inverted bobby pins or prematurely squirted spray could leave them looking like Princess Leia or a singer in a new wave band, two dozen Halifax women took their hair back to the 1940s. You know, just in case any munitions jobs come up.

“There was a lot of focus on hairstyles in the ’40s because everything else was rationed,” said Lena Hardiman, the education co-ordinator at the Canadian Museum of Immigration, who scheduled Saturday’s retro hair workshop to be held close to Remembrance Day.

Hardiman often styles her hair into victory rolls, the iconic hair style of the war years, variations of which went by terms like the High Command or Double Duty Strategy.

At least one of the women attending the workshop came because she’d seen Hardiman on the bus.


“I thought, ‘I love her hair,’” she said.

Many of the women taking part hadn’t used spray or a hair doughnut before, and loved Hardiman’s hint that Avon has hot rollers you can put in the microwave.

“My normal hairstyle I would describe as rock ’n’ roll mullet, so this is a little bit out of my wheelhouse,” said Floyd Blaikie, who plans to wear her new do to rockabilly events.

“I don’t leave the house without red lipstick and it seems like this hairstyle goes perfectly with that.”

At the back of the room, Maggie Ostler and her friend, Helle Haven, found their first couple of attempts at victory rolls had them looking like Minnie Mouse, but at the end of the hour they had the hang of it.

“I’m really happy with my rolling, I just don’t know how to pin it,” Haven said. “I’ve never spent this much time on my hair. My arms are sore.”

Hardiman said the interest that school groups show in photographs of war brides that came through Pier 21 after the war sparked the idea to hold the workshop.

“The victory rolls are very iconic, when people see it they know that it’s a retro, ’40s style hairstyle,” she said.

“I had no idea that it was going to be this popular. I knew there was interest in it because when I wear my hair this way, people would comment on it.”

One woman wanted to learn the victory roll so she could do her own hair for her upcoming wedding, while sisters Suzanne Salsman and Heather Zinn just thought it would be a fun way to spend a couple of hours.

“We’ve always liked vintage things. … I’ve always been more into Victorian stuff but I love the ’40s, too,” Zinn said.

“We’re going to lunch after this. I kind of want to go somewhere cool, like a diner, maybe go to the Armview.”



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