AND NOW... GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: MARCELLING AND THE MARCEL WAVER!

Everything Croton continues its very popular series GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN....and so without further ah-doo...

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN--MARCELLING AND THE MARCEL WAVER! Click on the photo.

Marcelling is a hair styling technique in which hot curling tongs are used to induce a curl into the hair.  Its appearance was similar to that of a finger wave but it is created using a different method.

Marcelled hair was a popular style for women's hair in the 1920s often in conjunction with a bob cut. For those women who had longer hair, it was common to tie the hair at the nape of the neck and pin it above the ear with a stylish hair pin or flower. One famous wearer was Josephine Baker.

Accounts vary about the invention of the style, but Marcel Grateau (1852–1936) is widely credited with inventing the hair styling technique in the 1870s (differing accounts report 1872 or 1875).  The inventor and stylist emigrated to the United States and changed his name to François Marcel Woelfflé, sometimes reported as François Marcel.  He was granted U.S. patents for implements for performing the technique--READ MORE AT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelling

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