Thread Number: 60239
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
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Post# 829039 , Reply# 1   6/22/2015 at 16:25 (3,224 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 829056 , Reply# 2   6/22/2015 at 17:19 (3,224 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Remember the television and print adverts from my youth.
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Post# 829058 , Reply# 3   6/22/2015 at 17:35 (3,224 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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There were other variations of those small hair/laundry dryers. Wagner and Sunbeam IIRC also had models.
They all were from an era when "nice" girls still laundered their danties by hand and usually left things to hang dry. Anyone growing up through say the 1970's probably well remembers entering a bathroom and having to duck stockings, slips and other undergarments drip drying over the bathtub. This was also the era of "wash and sets" with curlers so you needed a way to dry one's hair. Small portable soft bonnet hair dryers were seen as "modern" and certainly more portable than the hard shell versions. Sadly for Ronco and the rest many females the blow dryer replaced wash and sets and the washing machine (with or without a dryer) all that hand washing. |
Post# 829538 , Reply# 4   6/25/2015 at 14:47 (3,221 days old) by bvf ()   |   | |
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I would love one of these dryers for my collection..anybody have one in the club..I would love to see pictures…mark in az its 107 today our cactus is melting….
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Post# 829755 , Reply# 5   6/26/2015 at 20:17 (3,220 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Along with thrifts, garage sales and so forth. Many in NIB or otherwise mint condition.
As with so many appliances sold/foisted upon the female consumer market they were not a resounding success. The hair dryer market was saturated with all types of bonnet units both hard and soft, portable and stationary. As for drying intimate apparel these units didn't hold very much. With the rise of nylon and other man-made fibers for undergarments you really shouldn't put such things in any dryer. Besides they will drip dry quite quickly. |
Post# 829958 , Reply# 6   6/28/2015 at 15:39 (3,218 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Actually, you did not use it while the clothes were drying because it would fill m'lady's hair with lint. The lint would probably eventually clog the little holes in the inner bonnet. |
Post# 829966 , Reply# 7   6/28/2015 at 16:49 (3,218 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 833434 , Reply# 9   7/23/2015 at 14:23 (3,193 days old) by Realvanman (Southern California)   |   | |
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What exactly is it lol??? I LOVE old stuff! Keith |
Post# 833436 , Reply# 10   7/23/2015 at 14:54 (3,193 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Is an old school permanent wave machine which is where Bugs gets the idea to substitute sticks of dynamite.
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Post# 833458 , Reply# 12   7/23/2015 at 17:53 (3,193 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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