Purple hair
The telephone operator is ahead of the times.
One of my favorite movies. Saw it at a drive-in when I was about 10.
My mother is English and said the 'rebellious' new wave colored hair that came about in the '80s was nothing new, that women back home were coloring their hair, tho I suppose in the 'bouffant' style before she came to America in '61.
I guess the best example of this, tho it was in the '70s, was Mollie Sugden on Are You Being Served? as she began with sprayed hair, tho later gave way to wearing wigs.
I used to spend many school vacations as a kid in the '60s with my favorite relative, a great aunt. She was the retired head of campus housing at a prestigious college in New England.
She brought me to a luncheon for the college's female retirees once. I couldn't stop staring around the room at all the women with hair that at its "base"was platinum white, but which was tinged all over in these colors, in order, as I recall: pink, blue, and lavender! (Actually, the pink was something I'd seen a number of times before. But this was a more liberal group of women.)
I think with the possible exception of green and red, all other types of hair coloring that women would consider at that time would have been a tint on greying hair. Maybe orange would be excluded as well, unless you wanted to look like Lucy Ricardo.
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