Sentence:  There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in <WSD>curlers</WSD> overnight, waved with hot tongs;nb.... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.