Inside the Hidden Life of Beauty Salon in 1900s | History for Sleep

Tonight, we walked through what 1950s beauty salons actually were beyond their obvious function, the information networks and crisis management and honest conversations they provided in the only genuinely female space that postwar America offered, following Patsy and Dorothy and Vera across a single Thursday morning and across the decades that followed. Resources for further reading: Smithsonian Magazine: The Hidden Social History of the American Beauty Parlor https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... The Atlantic: What We Lost When We Lost the Neighborhood Beauty Shop https://www.theatlantic.com/family/ar... National Women's History Museum: Women's Community Spaces in Postwar America https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibit... Library of Congress: American Women's Social History Postwar Era https://www.loc.gov/collections/women... PBS American Experience: Women in Postwar America https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...