When Sam asked last week who is the most stylish funny lady, I had no hesitation: Lucille Ball. Ball was gorgeous and glamorous and one of the most fashionable women on TV, though she was so funny it was easy to forget that Lucy Ricardo was actually swanning around her tiny New York apartment in haute couture.
Lucy is one of a long tradition of actresses who dyed their hair red and then became famous as a ginger. She was actually a brunette, and when she first came to Hollywood she dyed her hair blonde because it was more glamorous. Then she dyed it red to set herself apart from all the blondes. A while after that she became the most famous star in the world. Clearly it was the hair. This one is a wig, in case you aren’t ready to break out the bottle yet.
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