Turbinator Drylite Salon Dryer Chair
Datec. 1950s
DimensionsOverall: 144.5 × 66 × 77 cm (1.45 × 0.66 × 0.77 m)
Credit LinePurchase, 2012
Object number2012.010.001
Label TextThis is a 1950s Turbinator Drylite salon dryer chair. Hair salons ballooned in the first decades of the 20th century. The fashion of bobbed hair is a significant reason. Women who could style their own long hair could not cut it into this new, fashionable style for themselves. A visit to the salon became a weekly ritual for many women. Today, there are more than 15,000 salons across Canada.
From the 1920s through to today, popular culture has admonished women to banish all signs of aging. A trip to the salon was one way to take care of “unsightly” grey hair.
Throughout the 20th century, women expected to marry for love. But women risked losing the love of husbands, according to a youth conscious culture, if their beauty faded. A host of products and services helped women keep their looks.
NameDryer, Standing Hair
c. 1945
c. 1950 - c. 1960
