Hey ,

My comic book Mayfield Eight is set in 1974, but thinking about the styles of hair the women wore back then revealed to me a bit of a discrepancy. You see, Tina the waitress' hair has that classic 'flip' look so popular of that time.

1976 to be exact. Oops, off by two years.

Anyway, kudos to Tina for being so forward-thinking about her hair. In the next few years every girl would wear her hair that way:

Who's responsible for that look?

It wasn't a person so much as a poster:

It was a case of having the right 'look' of the era:

1970s gobs and gobs of hair, hot-combed in a way that looked like it was blowing away from your face in the wind. Other examples:

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