Let's talk Scrunchies! T he year is 1984, the leaves are falling gently from the trees (that part is embellishment. It might have been shit weather. I didn't ask my mom the details), a beautiful baby girl enters the world. Fast forward ten or so years to an early stage of puberty, frizzy haired, tragically uncool Rachelle, not hip enough for Dr. Martens, Club Monaco Sweatshirts or anything else. After a 1987 patent was granted to Ronny Revson (the scrunchie was invented by Philips E. Meyers in 1963 but wasn't patented), t he scrunchie took the world by storm. All of the coolest people were wearing them. In my state of uncoolness, I was not one of those people so I had very few scrunchies and the ones I did have, made very little impact on the fashion world (or rather, on my few friends). The scrunchie retreated into obscurity for a couple decades and was even the target of ridicule during some of those cruel years. Then in the 2010s, it made a comeback...
