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Downton Abbey electrical curling tongs.

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Elegran Tue 16-Jul-24 17:55:47
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And here is the photo.

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Elegran Tue 16-Jul-24 17:54:00

This blogger has a photograph of a Victorian curling iron with a wooden handle, and a plug that can draw electricity from a light bulb socket.
americanatdowntonblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/girls-with-curls.html

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Callistemon213 Tue 16-Jul-24 17:47:10
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Did you see her plug it in?
Or did it look like this?

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MatildaMay Tue 16-Jul-24 17:33:54

I am just watching the Downtown Abbey series for the second time.

I was amazed to see a maid curling Lady Mary's hair with an electric curling tong which was not invented until 1959.

When I first saw the episode I thought where on earth was this curling tong when I was a teenager in the late 50's, I had to use rollers.

I know they used curling tongs which were heated on the fire like flat irons used to be but showing an electric curling tong in the Downtown Abbey series supposedly in 1919 is a gross error.

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