Margaret Vinci Heldt, inventor of the beehive hairdo, dies at 98.
Margaret Vinci Heldt, a Chicago hairdresser credited with teasing, sculpting and spraying the first beehive, the conical up do that heralded a towering new era in style when it debuted in 1960, died June 10 at a hospital in Elmhurst, Ill. She was 98. ... The cause was heart ailments, said her daughter, Carlene Ziegler.
In the American beauty shops of the 20th century, styles came and went. There was the bob, the pageboy and the bouffant — and then there was the beehive, a hairstyle unrivaled by any other in the heights to which it soared, the volume of hair spray it required to stay in place and the nostalgia it inspired as the years wore on.
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Yowza!
Do beehive!
"I got me a car, it's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the Love Shack..."
