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Title	Permanent wave machine
Subject	Hair Hairdressing Permanent waving Hair--Social aspects
Description	For women in the 1930s, a visit to the beauty parlor was a chance to get away from home, to socialize, and to hear the latest gossip. Beauty salons offered job and management opportunities for women. By 1938, there were an estimated 70,000 shops in the United States. The tightly-curled-every-hair-in-place styles of the time could only happen with specialized products and machines such as this electric permanent wave machine. The clamps were placed over metal rods in the customer's hair. Before "chemical perms" of the 1960s, this was the most popular way of getting an overall permanent wave.
Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Identifier	94.73.2
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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Photographer	Kaveney, Wendy
Collection	Artifacts at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Rights	This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

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