Before the invention of hair dryers, women would often attach hoses to the exhaust ends of vacuum cleaners to blow-dry their hair.
A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, 1928.19281929: The new sunlight ultra-modern cubicle for hairdressing on show at the Hairdressing Fair of Fashion at London’s White City. 1929London, England, 5th November, 1930, A woman tries out one of the latest types of hair drying machines seen at the hair dressing Fashion Fair held at Olympia in London 1930A woman demonstrates a hair-steaming apparatus at the Hairdressing Exhibition in London, 1930.A woman tries out a Supreme Pedestal hairdryer at the Hairdressing Exhibition in London. Sept. 22, 1932.A hair salon in Moscow, Russia, 1933.A hair salon in Cannes, France, 1937.Marjorie McWeeney sitting under a hair dryer while her son Mark is in a bassinet nearby at a hair dresser in New York, 1947. A woman uses a heat lamp and hairdryer made of hot glass, 1948.
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