The alarming aesthetics of jazz age perm machines.

Mix dangling wires and asbestos to achieve the perfect flapper wave. The perm may be the unofficial hairstyle of the '80s, but the perming process originated many decades earlier—and involved machines that resembled medieval torture devices rather than sleek salon appliances.
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