Ohhh, the utter shame and humiliation these poor XXXs must be feeling

[vintagehoover]

Colour...

...is surely a matter of taste? I'm sure after the endless variations of austere maroon, brown and beige of the 40s, plenty were reviled by the extensive use of frivolous pastel shades in the 50s. Of course, these people failed to understand the work of, for example, Henry Dreyfuss and Faber Birren, who sought to make Hoover's product line look more lightweight by influencing the pyschology of the consumer with the use of a lighter pallette.

Thus, in the same way today, plenty will fail to understand why certain companies - mentioning no names - use bold colours to draw attention to key aspects of their unique patented technology. Which strikes a cord with the consumer, helping sell many millions of cleaners, win the approval of design counsils worldwide, and ultimately lead to their inclusion in art and design museums all over the world as an icon of modern design. Can't argue with results!

Consumer products are always intended to be 'of their time'. It's a shame the same can't always be said of the people who buy them. But as long as the older generation are horrified, the younger generation is getting something right!

Long live progress!

 

[1926700]

i personally think....

who EVER painted those poor dears that GOD awful color should be drug out in the street and shot with no mercy!! i absolutely detest painting a good vintage cleaner like this any other color than the original. just my thought
all my best
jason

 

[vintagehoover]

Jason, that's ridiculously offensive and a total overreaction. Get a grip.

 

[sireluxomatic]

Just keep that lack of mercy rolling right along

“But as long as the older generation are horrified, the younger generation is getting something right!”

I find myself agreeing with this more and more every day.


As to being shot, hanged, garroted, or otherwise foully dispatched for painting a vacuum cleaner, should I await the firing squad for this? Granted, its no XXX, but still one of my best-loved cleaners, and it made me re-think my previous opinion of the XXX repaints as “appalling”.

Up with progress.

 

[petek]

Good grief, what's the story on that 89.

 

[sireluxomatic]

I previously posted about it in the following thread. Its by no means finished or even an adequate job of painting, and it makes that fellow's XXXs look like masterpieces by comparison.

http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/THREADS/VINTAGE/8426.htm?11