The extra time you spend getting ready because you wear vintage.

[Rosie_Beau]

I wouldn't say it takes any longer but my family definitely would say so. In fact just this weekend I was visiting my parents and said "I don't know what to wear" and mum said "Not 1950's stuff, we don't have time".
I like to spend as long as possible in bed during the week so generally don't wear much make up to work. At the weekends I can spend hours faffing about and getting ready. I suppose it all depends on how I'm feeling.

 

[Stanley Doble]

For some reason this discussion of hair reminds me of an anecdote of Harry Golden's. It was the early sixties and Jackie Kennedy had made wigs fashionable. Golden was in a department store where a crowd of women were attacking a pile of wigs that had just been put on sale.

A very well dressed, older lady observed the scene and said "In my day, we wouldn't be found dead in a patrol wagon with our hair looking like mattress stuffing".

Golden thought "Ah! What stories you could tell!"