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Now the curls are back, thanks to a hairdo dubbed the "unpermanent."

From Time Magazine Archive

As another hairdresser puts it: "The difference between the old permanent and a careful unpermanent is the difference between your first dress and a Balenciaga."

From Time Magazine Archive

The secret behind the unpermanent is a new kind of odorless setting solution that is much milder than the old stuff and produces a looser curl.

From Time Magazine Archive

What snivellers, what dotards, when they suffer themselves to be run away with by it!—An unpermanent passion!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel