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advertisement in Ladies Home Journal (1948) explains how to style pin curls
A curl made by dampening a lock of hair, fashioning it into a coil, and securing with a hair pin or clip while it dries.
1946, Charles R. Cochran, PIN CURL CLIP, US Patent 2,400,488:
This invention relates to pin curl clips and it is primarily an object of the invention to provide a clip of this kind which will hold a pin curl in position during the drying process without mashing but in a manner to maintain the curl in its original form.
1948, Hughes Hair Brushes, “You’re a lovely quick-change artist”, in Ladies Home Journal, page 25:
For daytime: Brush down into a page-boy. To set—five pin curls on top plus end curls all around.
1962, Bobbi pin curl wave, “Which curl is most likely to succeed?”, in Life, page 20:
A pin curl set with water or setting lotion will never amount to anything (here today, gone tomorrow). But the Bobbi curl will last for 8 weeks.
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