Being beautiful in 1942 had more to do with how daintily you held your fingers to your chin than with the symmetry of your features. If, by chance, you had man hands, you could look off to the side wistfully. But it wasn’t nearly as effective.
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Were they all instructed to ignore the camera and dream of their favorite things? All their expressions are indeed dreamy and wistful. Except for Martha Alice. She looks like she is up to something.
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She’s surely got something in the works.
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Oh my goodness!! Their hair!!! These are amazing pictures! love love love
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Say what you will, but if I had been around those days and lived on the same block, Patti Duncan and I may have had 3.2 kids and a Pontiac Bonneville, Kerbey. And I say that with one look at her hard-to-tame hair and I’m-going-to-have-a-family-and-be-an-executive-too eyes.
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Freudian slip? Patti Duncan is the lovely one. Sandy Duncan likes Wheat Thins LOL. Your secret crush has been revealed; thin women with pixie haircuts!
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that second haircut–holy cow. How to get those loops so symmetrical? I see it repeated in variations in the other pictures. Sheesh. We get a bad rap for big ’80s hair, but this stuff is even goofier. So coiffed. They really are scary.
And bahaha–my dad is here watching my kids and looked over my shoulder to see your post. (the pictures not the copy) He’s getting very excited about the old photos as this was his era. He just asked me if you like the magazine Reminisce. lol, you’ve made a friend 😉 Though your snark would go way over his head.
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Do you know that I had a subscription to that for a year? I love Reminisce. People in Radio Flyer wagons, moms in aprons, a pretty girl milking her cow. If I recall, I wanted to keep it, but it was pricey. It has cool stories, too.
And yep, we totally got a bad rap. We never did matching tidal wave loops like that. They must have gotten up at the crack of dawn to work that hair.
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That Patti Duncan is projecting personality-plus– it really comes across in her eyes and smile.
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Yes, she’s the “it girl” of this set for sure.
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