For All Your Bouffant Needs
Bizarre August 8th, 2009Holy Marge Simpson! Look what blew into my yard today.
I don’t I remember the last time I saw a woman wearing one of these, but there must be at least one bouffant-headed woman in my neighborhood.
If you happen to wear a bouffant hairstyle or something else as worthy of protecting, you may be interested in other products the Betty Dain company makes.
Or not. I’m guessing not.
The Sister Mary Catherine: For when you’re feeling particularly pious on rainy days.
The Wedding Cake Topper: What? Why? I don’t get it. That’s not a cap. It’s a pair of granny panties.
The Bee Keeper: I could have used one of these last week. Of course, no one would have wanted to sit next to me at lunch. But that’s the price you’d pay for the bee keeper look.
The Conehead: For the severely pointy-headed among us.
The Dork: "Trendy and masculine?" Nice try, Betty Dain. Nice try.
Stumble it!
August 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I hate really hate to admit this however I’ve had all these caps in my life including the last one which we used to highlight our hair..I’m so embarrassed and my mom she had them too.
Dorothy from grammoloyg
grammology.conm
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August 10th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
OMG! thank you for the link to this fabulous website. i loved looking at all the wacky stuff, but my favorite is the unda-net. it’s description is a classic! “Protects hair while you sleep Ideal for industrial and food service environments” Yay! I can wear this hat and sleep on the job!
hugs,
puglette
:o)
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August 10th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
You could rock that beekeeper bonnet. For realz.
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August 11th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Oh, Kathy, you are hilarious! Granny panties…hah!
Ya know, I’ve got a sneakin’ suspicion that Windy had something to do with this. I mean, how would that plastic bag know its way to your house? Huh? Think about it…
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August 11th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Nanny Goats — I love that people connected the rain hat bag to Windy. That thought never occurred to me! There isn’t much of Windy left, actually. I’ll know more when the leaves in her tree fall off. We may be having a funeral in a few months.
misspiggytoes — Way to think fast! You can’t have her scouring her closet for other things. You might have wound up with a hat box full of stuff from 1948.
Regan — Not exactly. Apparently some women do wear them for their do’s!
Chris Casey — Oh, yeah, blog hell. Where people suffer writer’s block for an eternity. I’ll let you slide. This time.
Dorothy Stahlnecker — Hey, as long as you never wore the shower caps in public, you’re OK. You didn’t, right?
Puglette — Whaaaa? A double duty cap? What will they think of next? I pitied my sister, who worked in food service at a hospital as s teen. She had to wear a hair net. Me? I worked in a fast food restaurant, where I had to wear a cowboy hat as part of my uniform. Now that I think about it, mine was worse.
Condo Blues — Add a nice pair of drop earrings and some hot red lipstick? Yea, baby!
earthtoholly — Yes, I am actually considering it as a sign that Windy is still OK in her tree. I actually asked her to send me a sign when I wrote my Windy Haikus in my previous post. Windy! You’re OK!
August 11th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Love this. It’s so retro. I didn’t think women bought these anymore!
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August 11th, 2009 at 10:06 am
wow, so funny. I guess everyone has different needs and issues. Who are we to judge?
NOT! These people have issues we can’t even begin to address! I like the beekeeper one. How about putting on makeup after you dress? I don’t know, I don’t ever wear that much makeup that I need some sort of device just to get dressed. EWWWW
August 11th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Believe it or not someone came to my house last week with one of the bouffant ones on her head. It was not raining, just a mist and hardly that. I couldn’t help but stare. Been a long, long time since I’ve seen one! 🙂
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August 11th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I actually saw a woman in broad daylight walking around with a full head of curlers in my neighborhood a few weeks ago. Curlers! i tell ya! Couldn’t believe my eyeballs. She was getting out of her car walking toward a yard sale. Maybe she was the owner of your bouffant topper.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:37 am
LOL – I’ve never worn a shower cap and didn’t realize there were so many incredible and stylish options. Kind of feel sorry for the coneheads, though.
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August 12th, 2009 at 6:14 am
As the daughter of a hairdresser, I’ve seen my share of boufants and people wearing these silly hats. My mother had a parade of little old ladies from the neighborhood come every Saturday morning for their wash and sets. There was so much hair spray flying that there was a cloud all morning in our kitchen. What best to protect your now beautiful hairdo with but a plastic bonnet?
You should have seen my grandmother when she went to bed. To protect her hair for the week she used a combination of cardboard toilet paper rolls and hair net to protect her hair from collapsing as she slept.
I am forever thankful for my wash and wear type hairstyle. I would never had made it as a “lady” of the fifties.
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August 12th, 2009 at 7:04 am
I wear the cone head one all the time, but not on my head.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I love it! Did you notice that the dork was available in other colors? Too funny. And actually, in one of the Harry Potter movies, his neighbor is wearing one of those caps. It’s right after he and Dudley get attacked by dementors in the underpass. Yup, I lead a sad life.
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August 12th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Those are so funny, but the sad thing is that I remember those!!!
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August 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
This is hilarious. Reminds me of the classic “I Love Lucy” episode where Ricky and Fred get horse feed buckets and potato sacks and turn them into haute couture to dupe Lucy and Ethel because of their blind enamor of trendy fashions. Hats off to the brilliant marketer who can get a spread in InStyle magazine for this stuff.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I think I would suffocate in that bee keeper thingy! What is she protecting her hair and her makeyup!?
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August 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Wendy — If it comes back in style you can thank me. Or blame me.
elenka — If your makeup isn’t staying on your face when you put your clothes on, buy new makeup. Freaky isn’t it?
Cats Goats Quotes — I would have probably tried to take a picture. That’s what bloggers do, right?
ann of the junkdrawerblogfamily — Gah! That’s very brave or she really just doesn’t care anymore.
Shane — Seriously. When I went looking at the site, they just got wackier and wackier. Cracked the hell up.
melissan — Laughing about the cloud. But sorry! I can’t picture the toilet paper roll contraption, but God bless her for trying. I’d sooner shave my head than parade around like that.
John J Savo — I suppose congratulations are in order.
Preston — Who’s Harry Potter? Just kidding. Sort of. I haven’t read the books so I’ll take your word for it. I know. Shame on me. (And I’m the one with the sad life, not you.)
Sherry at EX Marks the Spot — As long as you’re not wearing them now…
Rick — Funny! And like Carol Burnett when she wore the curtain rod in the classic Gone With the Wind sketch. I’m convinced crazy fashions make it to market because all the designers are fresh out of sane ideas.
LaTonya — Yeah, but don’t you think the Bee Keeper is messing up her hair even more? It’s counter-productive, if you ask me.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
My grandmother had some of those. We loved them because they came in teeny tiny little plastic suitcases only a mere 2 or 3 inches big. You folded em up and put em in the little suitcases even though they never fit back in right. Oh well, Barbie and Darth Vader used their containers for luggage on their trips instead.
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August 18th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
My Grandma uses that brand. LOL. Hers is not so much a bouffant as a football helmet.
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August 20th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Chris at TheSnackHound — Oh, how cute to use for action figures’ luggage! I can just picture them. “Honey, there’s a Star Wars convention. Pack your bags!”
Wendy — Football helmet! Awesome. I had that look. 1983. Achieved with a can of hairspray.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
It’s funny to hear that you wear a bandanna to sleep in