A bad hair day

[nq:1]Hello, my question refers to the topic. Is that an American idiom and ifyes what is its meaning? Merely a day without much luck?? BTW was the spelling correct? Thanks[/nq]
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I would've placed it earlier than "early 1990s." I owned a t-shirt with a cartoon of a messy rabbit and the slogan "bad hare day," and I like to think I stopped wearing such things long before 1990.

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[nq:1]bad hair day n phr early 1990s The sort of day when nothing goes right; the sort of day that is not one's day:[/nq]
[nq:1]From Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition (1995) by Robert L. Chapman[/nq]
Really? I had no idea. The only meaning I've ever associated with "bad hair day" was 'day on which one can't get one's hair to look good'. I didn't know it had the extension to 'day

[nq:1]Hello, my question refers to the topic. Is that an American idiom and if yes what is its meaning? Merely a day without much luck?? BTW was the spelling correct? Thanks[/nq]

Reinhold (Rey) Aman

[nq:2]yes bad hair day n phr early 1990s The sort ... American Slang, Third Edition (1995) by Robert L. Chapman[/nq]
[nq:1]I would've placed it earlier than "early 1990s." I owned a t-shirt with a cartoon of a messy rabbit and the slogan "bad hare day," and I like to think I stopped wearing such things long before 1990.[/nq]
OED has it back to 1988, if that makes you feel any better:

Aaron J. Dinkin filted:
[nq:1]Really? I had no idea. The only meaning I've ever associated with "bad hair day" was 'day on which one ... good'. I didn't know it had the extension to 'day when things other than one's hair don't go well' too.[/nq]
There's a related catchphrase that apparently goes back further than I guessed: "I just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it"...I

[nq:2]I would've placed it earlier than "early 1990s." I owned ... to think I stopped wearing such things long before 1990.[/nq]
[nq:1]OED has it back to 1988, if that makes you feel any better:[/nq]
Well, no. I was old enough to vote then. But I realized I was misremembering, so it's okay the shirt said "I just washed my hare and I can't do a thing with it," not "bad hare day."

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Not to be confused with JBF hair (which I'm not exactly sure how it is different from bad hair).

[nq:1]bad hair day n phr early 1990s[/nq]
I first heard it in '84, when I was a student and hanging around with American students.
I'd always believed its canonical use to be in a film, maybe something like "Pretty in Pink", or similar teen-comedy.

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[nq:1]Well, no. I was old enough to vote then. But I realized I was misremembering, so it's okay the shirt said "I just washed my hare and I can't do a thing with it," not "bad hare day."[/nq]
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