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Learning about loyalty from a grandmother's
hair routine.

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y grandmother's world a new one each week, but it al-
was momentarily spun ways seems to work this way) and
off kilter when her hair- sometimes she stops at the bank.
stylist announced plans Not a bad system.
to move the Powder Puff.
I keep wondering if in some
I'm not talking about the kind small way, I'm missing out. Be-
commonly carried in makeup kits.
cause, I mean, I've never really
My grandma has been having her talked to anyone but my hair-
hair and nails done at the Powder dresser at the salon, and some-
Puff on Devon Avenue in Chica- times I don't have so much to say
go longer than I've been
to him. So hanging out
alive. And suddenly, the
there for hours on end
place decides to head for
could really make for a
greener pastures (or
long afternoon.
shall I say grayer roots)
My grandma's faith-
— a couple of miles, re-
fulness to her haircutter
ally, but two might as
— that, I know, has noth-
well be 20 once you start
ing to do with age. I made
talking about changing
it through four years of
her routine.
college never getting a
Going to the hairstyl- ALLISON KAPLAN cut on campus. I would
ist really has little to do
always schedule trips
SPE CIAL
with hair for my grand-
home to correspond with
TO THE
ma. It's about Thurs-
hair growth.
JEWIS H NEWS
days. That's when she
And I have a friend
has an entire day of activity cen- who is constantly out-of-town for
tered around the special place only work, but she faithfully returns
grandmas refer to as "the beau- every sixth Saturday for her
ty shop." I often wonder if I'll start standing appointment with the
calling my salon a "beauty shop" woman she calls "God's gift to hair
when I have grandchildren, but care." I've yet to see her demon-
somehow I think Frederick, the strate the same unyielding com-
color expert at Salon Fifth Avenue mitment to a man.
or whichever swank place I'm fre-
But even those of my genera-
quenting at the time, would ob- tion who are devoted to a salon
ject to the "shop" imagery.
don't go every week. I guess that
My grandma has Thursdays makes sense, considering I've nev-
down to a science. Her haircutter er seen a 25-year-old who gets her
— get this — picks her up in the hair set either.
morning and chauffeurs her to the
As I shake my loose locks dry
beauty shop. It's like a totally dif- after a shower and let them land
ferent spin on pampering. But wherever they may fly, I have a
when you've got arthritis, a ride hard time envisioning the trans-
is infinitely more precious than a formation to grandma hair. At
cleansing wash with $20-a-squirt what point will I no longer blow
natural shampoo made of pear du my own hair? Will I sudden-
slices and twigs.
ly find myself drawn to aerosol
So anyway, she gets to the sprays?
shop, has her hair done —not cut,
I asked my grandma if she
because as I understand it, when thinks Fll have a routine like hers
you're a weekly customer most of when I get older. She laughed. No
the time is spent setting the hair way, she said.
in this impenetrable style that can
I guess she's feeling pretty con-
not be tousled even by the winds fident about her hair routine, since
of Lake Michigan. Then she the stylist announced she would
moves on to her manicurist.
continue picking up my grandma
I'm not exactly sure what hap- on Thursday mornings, even if it
pens from there, or how long these is a little further out of the way.
procedures take, but somehow I Like "Seinfeld," it just wouldn't be
know my grandma winds up on Thursday at the beauty shop with-
this strategically placed bench at out my grandma.
the front of the shop (I've picked
She feels bad about discontin-
her up there) where she can talk uing her lunch date and is not
to all the stylists as well as the sure which day she'll get to the
other Thursday customers.
bank. The prescriptions, she
All of this leads up to lunch, at learned, can be delivered.
which time a friend meets her at
My grandma told me she might
the shop, and they go across the start hopping a cab after her ap-
street to eat. Then she ducks into pointment, rather than waiting
the drug store for a prescription for a ride, so she could make it
(I don't know how she can need back to the neighborhood to con-
tinue the afternoon rituals. So far,
,=,, Allison Kaplan is a columnist for
I don't think she's jumping — it
the Chicago Jewish Star whose
turns out the new beauty shop has
mother only lets her date
an excellent deli right across the
Jewish guys.
street. 0

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