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SINDY'S HAIRDRYER
Sindy’s hairdryer has got to be one of the most genius toy ideas of all time… Everyone wants to dry their doll’s just-washed and set hair in a snap, right? And it must have been a bestseller for Pedigree as some version of it was available for about a decade. (I also have the later sunny orange version in the bathroom of the Sindy townhouse.) Its design is so simple – essentially just a cool-air fan encased in that bubble dryer, so as not to singe the doll’s hair – yet so effective, and because of its integral chair, no other furniture is required. I was the first kid on my block to have this in the 1970’s and I remember every kid on my street would arrive with her doll (and it was ANY type of fashion doll; - Barbie, Sindy, Tuesday, Tanya or any of the other clones) in curlers waiting for a booking in my ‘salon.’ LOL … I got this 1975 version in bright fuchsia and white many years ago - years before I even started collecting Sindy!!! - from a friend who found it in a yard sale for me for practically nothing, as it didn’t work anymore. Just recently, my BFF Dean said that he and his fiancé could fix it, so they did and now it works again! My just-arrived brunette ‘bunches’ Funtime (Thanks Neil! ;) ) is the first ‘booking’ in the ‘Eduardo salon’, and her hair really was dry in minutes! Now I hope my orange version gets fixed soon, too. (I have lots of the Pedigree Sindy brown hair rollers, and a full set of the white ‘set-in-style’ rollers from 1977, but just used these Tressy rollers this time around!)
SINDY'S HAIRDRYER
Sindy’s hairdryer has got to be one of the most genius toy ideas of all time… Everyone wants to dry their doll’s just-washed and set hair in a snap, right? And it must have been a bestseller for Pedigree as some version of it was available for about a decade. (I also have the later sunny orange version in the bathroom of the Sindy townhouse.) Its design is so simple – essentially just a cool-air fan encased in that bubble dryer, so as not to singe the doll’s hair – yet so effective, and because of its integral chair, no other furniture is required. I was the first kid on my block to have this in the 1970’s and I remember every kid on my street would arrive with her doll (and it was ANY type of fashion doll; - Barbie, Sindy, Tuesday, Tanya or any of the other clones) in curlers waiting for a booking in my ‘salon.’ LOL … I got this 1975 version in bright fuchsia and white many years ago - years before I even started collecting Sindy!!! - from a friend who found it in a yard sale for me for practically nothing, as it didn’t work anymore. Just recently, my BFF Dean said that he and his fiancé could fix it, so they did and now it works again! My just-arrived brunette ‘bunches’ Funtime (Thanks Neil! ;) ) is the first ‘booking’ in the ‘Eduardo salon’, and her hair really was dry in minutes! Now I hope my orange version gets fixed soon, too. (I have lots of the Pedigree Sindy brown hair rollers, and a full set of the white ‘set-in-style’ rollers from 1977, but just used these Tressy rollers this time around!)