Bits and Bobs …

A little tongue-in-cheek, but that’s my modernised version of the old adage.

Blame my retro on the wig box. That funny little cardboard box once held tresses by Tovar. Not a whole wig, mind you; it wouldn’t fit. This box was for a switch.

The H&O Covabob – It hides the bob (from Jazz, Gin & the Cat’s Meow)I remember first hearing that term in a vintage Archie comic, a long time ago. Veronica had a long switch of black hair and bewitched Archie and Reggie with it, much to Betty’s annoyance. Or was it Betty who got hers first? Yes, and then Ronnie went one better. I guess it was called a switch because you could switch it back into your short hair – much like the vintage illustration of the flapper switch (right) – ‘The Covabob hides the bob’. Don’t you love that slogan?

I don’t own any switches (my own hair is more than long enough), although I do own several cheap bobs, in black, blonde and blue – naturally. I next want one in cotton-candy pink.

It’s just bits and bobs I keep in this box these days.