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    Posted: February 25 2002 at 8:07am
Those clamps were to deliver heat to the perm rods to activate the perm solution. The modern Uniperm used a similar principle.

There is a brief history of permanent waving at: http://freespace.virgin.net/david.astling/AHistoryofPermanentWaving.html

Happy reading!
Merlin
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What is a "hot perm" - apparently what was done before modern perming? Old pictures show
ladies with their hair hooked up to metal cylinders, attatched to tubes. Is this hot perming? It
looks scary. What was inside the tubes? Perm solution? Hot water? I`m very curious.
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