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Description: | This is a professional salon hair dryer made by the Halliwell Electric Company of New York. It was bought in the early 1920s by Benjamin Schmelz for his salon, Schmelz, in Upper Street, Islington, where it remained until 1981. Halliwell's had premises in Soho during the 1920s, from where it sold to London hairdressers. Electrical equipment was becoming more common in the hairdressing trade. Although women now wore their hair short, they also wanted it waved and bobbed. Electric permanent wave machines, electric vapour face baths and sunray lamps were all part of the modern beauty business. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Youth Culture and Fashion | Temporal: | 1920 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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