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...year-old waitress from Hitachi in northeastern Ibaraki prefecture, had to take a two-hour train ride to join her friends on this pilgrimage to Jesus Diamante, one of the first fashion brands to promote hime-kei, as the look is known, with its frilly pastel frocks and ringlet hairdos. With money earned from part-time work, the girls plan to shop for two hours at the brand's Harajuku store before heading to its Shinjuku branch. "I love their design. It amps me up!" enthuses Nagamine. (Watch TIME's video "Princess Fashion in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses Preen in a Pauper Economy | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...from her companions, from whom she seems to have picked up some primping tips. At a nightclub later, she wore a Versace dress. Though her makeover was widely praised, there are still those who insist on finding fault with the Clintons. On naturallycurly.com a website for women pumped with ringlet pride, Chelsea earned a mention in the Hall of Shame for her "horrifying example of anti-curl bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 4, 2002 | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...only visible effect of Ev's new-found role as a pop recording star is that his hair, which was duplicated, ringlet by unruly ringlet, in a recent sculpture by Rube Goldberg, now cascades over his ears and down his neck with Joanie Phoanie abandon, and the great wave atop his head looks as if it had been locked in place with Living Curl. In a certain light, there even seems to be a new tint of gold among the silver threads-though only his hairdresser knows for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Sing Loo, Sweet Senator | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...leader and under leaders. Each was designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb and beat of the swirling paces, the glow of sweat, the shining eyes of enthusiasm, all combined in a vivid phantasmagoria of colour and of sheer physical...

Author: By David J.M. Muffett, | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Tribal Gathering | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped from a Spanish sefiorita. But by far the most intriguing was one packet holding a single fair ringlet, with the bemused memo in Byron's faded scrawl: "Whose this was I don't recollect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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