What did women use as hairspray years ago? Miss Kitty’s hair was always in place. Joe Pence Via the Internet Shampoo didn’t come into use until the 1920s, and soap was hard on a woman’s hair so they seldom washed their tresses. In the real West if a woman’s hair looked like she’d been using hairspray, it’s because it was oily and dirty. Of course, Miss Kitty lived in the mythical West—Hollywood—where horses didn’t poop in the streets, heroes never reloaded their six-guns during


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