I have been reading Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries, and among other things, the degree of 1980s detail is amazing — she’s always going to the hairdresser to have her hair “frosted”, and, of course, the appalling wives of the appalling super-rich men who bestrode Manhattan all have absolutely gigantic helmet heads of hair. It was making me laugh to remember it all. That hair — bigger, taller, more backcombed, higher — was literally asking for a fall, much like the hair at the court of Versailles in the second half of the 18th century (before the heads that bore it were chopped off, that particular hair — wigs, obviously — was often several feet tall). The fall came in the form of the stock-market crash of 1987.…

Source: The Times December 10, 2017 00:04 UTC