Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an extensive scrunchie collection from around the world, and she told The Wall Street Journal which places she thinks are the best place to buy the 1980s hair accessories that are making a comeback on fashion runways and on pop stars’ heads this year.
“I have been wearing scrunchies for years,” Ginsburg told the WSJ. “My best scrunchies come from Zurich. Next best, London, and third best, Rome.”
Indeed, Ginsburg wore a blue scrunchie when she accepted then-President Bill Clinton’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice in 1993, and she also wore one during her confirmation hearing that year. Unlike many women, though, she never stopped wearing them.
The 85-year-old, 25-year Supreme Court Justice often wears scrunchies with her signature low ponytail.
“My scrunchie collection is not as large as my collar and glove collections, but scrunchies are catching up,” she admitted to the WSJ.
Scrunchies were worn by everyone from Madonna to D.J. Tanner on “Full House” in the 1980s and 1990s, but by 2003, a “Sex and the City” episode criticized them as being verboten in fashion-savvy circles.
“No woman who works at W Magazine and lives on Perry Street would be caught dead at a hip downtown restaurant wearing a scrunchie,” character Carrie Bradshaw said in the show.
Ironically, W Magazine put scrunchies on its trend list for 2018, and runway models wore them during fashion week in September, the WSJ noted. Urban Outfitters also said scrunchie sales were up 170 percent in 2017.
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