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Rose Evansky inventor of the "blow wave"23 October 2006
If you remember first hand the lacquered kiss-curls of the '30s and '40s or the tight perms of the '50s, you may be thankful that in the early 1960’s a woman called Rose Evansky is said to have invented the “blow wave”.

Her revolutionary new method of drying hair with a hand-held blow dryer gave her Mayfair clients a soft, natural look that instantly earned her a reputation as one of the top hairdressers in London.

It was a great leap for a woman who had only come to England as a refugee from Nazi Germany a few decades before.

Now 84, Rose has retired to Hove, on the South Coast. Jennifer Chevalier went to meet her.
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