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...first haircut are the same as from the last," says Martini. Hirsutologists also suspected Lyndon Johnson, whose hair appeared to gray noticeably after he left office. Again Martini says no. Toward the end of his tenure, says the barber, L.B.J. was finally persuaded to give up not dye, but the "greasy kid stuff" that seemed to darken his hair. After all, what President would not want a little statesmanlike gray at the temples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Does He or Doesn't He? | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Today Annie has graduated to a ramshackle semicommune in the Hollywood Hills, surrounded by the vats, bottles and colors of her Water Baby Dye Works. Most of the works is out of doors -which is almost necessary, because Annie uses lye and sodium hydrosulfite, resulting in fumes that make it necessary for her to cover her hair, wear rubber gloves and an apron, and douse herself thoroughly in vinegar at the end of a dyeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Psychedelic Tie-Dye Look | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...almost as old as India -where it is called bandhnu. It is as new as the boutiques that blossom along Sunset Strip and Madison Avenue -where it is called tie-dyeing. Knotting cloth and dipping it in dye to produce patterns of colorful blobs, swirls and splotches has suddenly become a bright new fad of both high fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Psychedelic Tie-Dye Look | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...Water Babies. The old new fashion spread rapidly through the rock world; many of its stars now sleep in tie-dyed sheets (Janis Joplin has a set in satin). Pop Singer John Sebastian habitually turns himself out in tie-dye from chin to tennis shoes; he does it all himself, and his stove is usually covered with bubbling dye pots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Psychedelic Tie-Dye Look | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Sebastian learned the craft from one of its best-known practitioners on the West Coast, "Tie-Dye Annie." Dark-haired Ann Thomas, born 33 years ago in New York City, was a copywriter for Capitol Records and worked for an ad agency in Hawaii before dropping out in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. There, at the Free Store, she learned to tie-dye castaway clothes. "It was the only way we had to give them our own individual stamp of identity," she explains, "as well as making them beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Psychedelic Tie-Dye Look | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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