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Message:: [QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 128573, member: 267"]and hair receivers sat on many a vanity. :) Just for fun, I looked up Japanese hair receivers and came up with this... SATSUMA! [ATTACH=full]32892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]32893[/ATTACH] I have my grandmother's switch, from when she bobbed her hair in 1915, age 16. She was called Honey because of the color of her hair, and we were a match. My sister used it as a "Ratt" to bump up her her beehives in the sixties - she was blonde and also used it as a contrasting element - pretty high concept! She left it behind when she moved out, and I've had it ever since. I found a couple of links debating exactly WHAT hair receivers were used for: <a href="https://historymyths.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/myth-94-hair-receivers-were-dressing-table-accessories-meant-for-gathering-hair-with-which-to-make-hair-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://historymyths.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/myth-94-hair-receivers-were-dressing-table-accessories-meant-for-gathering-hair-with-which-to-make-hair-art/" rel="nofollow">Myth # 94: Hair receivers were dressing table accessories meant for gathering hair with which to make hair art</a>and <a href="http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/hairreceivers.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/hairreceivers.htm" rel="nofollow">Hair Receivers, Secret Beauty Aids of the Past</a> (One other obscure hair term I remember is "guiche," (sp) which is what hairdressers called a spit or kiss curl in the 50s and 60s) [/QUOTE]

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