How can I learn to do HairDo's from the 40s/50s?

Question

I'm mildly obsessed with the way women wore their hair in the late fourties.
It looks like it must have taken hours to get everything so perfectly in place...
Can I replicate this w/ a modern curling iron?
Any simple ideas for ways to invoke that vintage sort of look?

Answer 1

Don't know. But you might try this hairdo history site:

http://hairrific.com/hist.htm