General HAIR question about classic TV shows

Women back then invested a lot more time and equipment in styling their hair. Besides hair salons, many women had electric curlers and helmet-style hair dryers in their homes. Some women used orange juice cans to get those huge flip curls. Marge Simpson beehives were fashionable in the 1960s; women with long, straight  hair in the 1970s got perms and crimpers to add volume to their hair. In the 1980s, it was a little dangerous to go into a public ladies' room because it was common to encounter a woman with a can of hair spray in each hand; she'd proceed to spray, from both both cans at once,  a huge cloud of noxious ozone-destroying chemicals around her head, and much of the room, to get that "big hair" effect. Some women did have wigs, each kept on a styrofoam head, which came in handy when they just didn't have the time or energy to sculpt their real hair into a bouffant. Eva Gabor of Green Acres had a whole line of wigs; the Eva Gabor Wigs company is still around today. Florence Henderson's hair in the first season of The Brady Bunch was actually a wig; she'd cropped her hair very short for a movie role (Song of Norway, a Sound of Music knock-off) and it didn't grow back in time for the first season of the show. A lot of women in those years learned how to sleep at night with a head full of curlers or paid regular visits to hairdressers.

God knows the bouffants and beehives of the Sixties were bad enough (and helped give rise in turn to the straight, flat, 'ironed' hair look that female Nature Children were sporting in the Woodstock era); Seventies dos sometimes had that stiff, over-teased look, but the introduction of the Farrah Fawcett 'bed-head' style changed that quite a lot, and so did the boyish 'pixie' hairdos inspired by celebs such as Dorothy Hamill. Jane Fonda's 'Klute' shag was also hugely influential on women's hairstyles of the period. During much of the Seventies, a more relaxed and natural look edged out the over-applianced looks that had hung over from the mid-Sixties era.

But god, Eighties hair is horrible. Between the mullet and those ghastly nuclear explosions that women were freighting their heads with, even the cheesier earlier styles don't look so bad. Of course I suppose those titanic heads of hair were needed to counterbalance the gigantic shoulder pads, another Eighties artefact of fashion disaster. Hair and clothing of that era were plain long ugly, and honestly, to me, date far worse than hairstyles and fashions of the Seventies do.

I have a vague memory of a 1960s hair spray commercial in which two women with flip-curl helmet hairdos had to ride through a car wash in a convertible--one had sprayed her hair with the product advertised, and the other had used a competitor's product. The second girl's hairdo was completely washed out, while the girl who had used the spray being advertised still had her hair retaining its shape! I remember
being a little disturbed by this, and I worried that I would be required by law to wear my hair in that style when I was older(or be foced to sleep in curlers like my mother and older sister often did).
It was a relief that by the time I became a teenager in the mid-'70s, the styles had changed and I could just wear my hair long snd straight; I've never had to resort to curlers.