Some breakups are harder than others and Rommy’s was about as bad as one can get, at least financially.  Her marriage was ending, she was divorcing one of the richest men in America and through a series of legal maneuvers by her rich husband she was going to wind up with squat!  She found herself broke and having to go work to feed herself. 

Now, this is not all that uncommon after a divorce, especially for women, but in this case something was more than a little strange because the man she was divorcing was one of he richest men in the country.  He was worth millions from his family’s business.   But for whatever reason, Rommy wasn’t going to get a dime of that money.  So she had to go to work.  

Well, the first order of business was to make herself as presentable as she could to a perspective employer, so she decided to bleach her hair.....you know, kind of give herself a new image and maybe help herself psychologically a little too.  Big mistake!   The chemicals from the bleach damaged her hair to the point that it started coming out in handfuls.  Rommy said it was horrible; almost nothing could have done more damage to her tender self image at that time.   

There was nothing she could do with that mess on her head other than just to pull it back, put a rubber band in it and wear it in a pony tail.  OK, she looked pretty good in a pony tail, but within a day or so, she realized that her hair was so damaged that the rubber bands that held her pony tail were breaking her hair and doing even more damage.  

You know, they say ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, and sure enough that’s the case here too.  She thought about it a little then came up with an idea to use elastic rather than rubber bands and cover the elastic with soft fabric.  That worked!  It held her hair without damaging it and it was colorful and attractive too.  She called the little invention Scunci, named after her little Lhasa Apso puppy.  No secret now, huh? Yep, today we call them ‘scrunchies.”  And I think every woman in America has a couple of them in her drawer. 

And they were not just invented as a gimmick.  Nope there was a real need.  The popularity of scrunchies was immediate and Rommy never did apply for a job, but the end result is kind of interesting.  It’s a Little Known Fact that Rommy Revson being forced to go to work as a result of a very bad divorce caused her to invent scrunchies.  But more, her divorce was from one the richest men in America.  You see he was the heir to the Revlon cosmetic fortune.  Today Rommy has sold over two billion scrunchies...and now has more personal wealth than the man she divorced who left her penniless.

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