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Originally Posted by rmarshall
All but #8,9,10. I suspect butch wax was hair wax, grease or something because of the expession "he looks really butch". Newsreels before movies were shown in old movies when people actually went to the movies in the movie. (if you know what I mean?)
I'm only 50.
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If memory serves, and that gets to be more of a stretch as the years slide by, "butch" was a particular brand of hair wax, the purpose of which was to keep the hair at the front in a fixed upright position, for those trendy souls who had "flat top" haircuts. The lid of the container was circular, and had little prongs sticking up, so that it could be used as a kind of comb.
Vitalis is another great dated hair product that needs to be on this list...I could take clean hair, after a shower, and make it look like I hadn't washed my hair in months.