An earlier version of this story stated that off-duty models in 2017 acted as a bellwether for the return of scrunchies. It was actually models on the runway. The story also misspelled the first ...

Whispers of the revival recurred over the next few years—posts on Glamour, Racked, and a trend watch blog in 2010, a Daily Beast list of celebrities in scrunchies in 2011, including, of course ...