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I have just got a Wigo Taifun 111 hand held hairdryer. I used to have a Wigo in the 60s when blow drying females’ hair was quite new.  I remember around 1968 someone giving his hairdryer bill to his accountant only to be told by the tax inspector that he cannot claim that item as he was not a barber. It seems that no ladies hairdresser had ever clamed a hairdryer as expenses before him. 

 I think this hairdryer is made in Germany and I am expecting it to last for around the same amount of time as my last Wigo. That is 40 years.  I still have it but it’s not used every day anymore as it’s a museum piece. Italian hairdryers are better looking but don’t seem to last so well for me.  This one seems so much more sturdy and reliable.

    I think it was around 1969 when we started to scrunch dry hair. If I remember well enough it all started when the miners went on strike and all over England the electricity would go off for a half day. But the time was different for different areas. I was working in Knightsbridge London and we had 30 clients in the place and after the lights went out we (as a lot of others did) went to a friendly salon not too far away for help, But as we had too many clients we had to just shrug our shoulders and towel dry the new layered haircuts. Later on the clients came back and said that they preferred to just let the hair dry naturally and that was the beginning of the scrunch dried look. Maybe the story was the same all over England. So Ladies you can thank the British miners for your having thrown away your roller sets. The world of hairdressing has never been the same since