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The death of the blue rinse 28 Apr 2006
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Mrs Slocombe made it infamous in “Are You Being Served” but now it seems it has had its day. Sales of blue rinse are so low that at least one supermarket has announced its no longer going to stock it.

Should we mourn or celebrate the passing of those doughty ladies known as the "blue rinse brigade"? Edwina Currie, former Conservative government minister, writer and broadcaster and Professor Caroline Cox author of Good Hair Days: The History of British Hairstyling and Hair and Fashion, join Martha tochart the history of the blue rinse.

Good Hair Days: The History of British Hairstyling, Quartet Books, ISBN: 0704381117

Hair and Fashion, V & A Publications, ISBN: 1851774572
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