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Thread Number: 27582
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Can you "taupe" this? |
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Post# 308609 , Reply# 1 12/12/2014 at 16:18 (3,414 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I know that HOOVER | ||
| Post# 308617 , Reply# 3 12/12/2014 at 16:55 (3,414 days old) by ronni (USA) | ||
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Please post photos of the taupe Hoovers. As for the seal griege Hoovers you've piqued my curiosity. I'm probably familiar with the color--just not the term (albeit I'm not too familiar with Hoovers). | ||
| Post# 308627 , Reply# 4 12/12/2014 at 19:23 (3,414 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Hey Ronnie
The first special edition (wine coloured) machines used the taupe hose from the System 90. Later ones had the new plastic hoses with a wine coloured tracer. All the Regency series machines I have seen had the same blue hose as the diplomat / ambassador etc. Here's a pic of the Taupe C2000 Don't forget the Discovery 3 too (I don't have a picture handy of one) Doug
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| Post# 308637 , Reply# 5 12/12/2014 at 20:38 (3,414 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
 Here's one with a taupe color in the bag (as well as other colors). This is one of John Long's lovelies.....Convertible Model 1076
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| Post# 308644 , Reply# 7 12/12/2014 at 21:38 (3,414 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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Hey Ronnie - Take a look at the Electrolux sections of my web page - it may fill in some answers. smithcollection.altervista.org/in...
Heres my Special Edition 2100 with the hose 
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| Post# 308650 , Reply# 8 12/12/2014 at 22:06 (3,414 days old) by ronni (USA) | ||
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Awesome site, Doug--what an incredible amount of work, and what an astounding collection! Thanks for the photo of the Special Edition/2100 and hose. Didn't know that the plastic hoses had tracers. | ||
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Post# 308665 , Reply# 9 12/12/2014 at 23:29 (3,414 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I didn't realize that you (John ) | ||
| Post# 308693 , Reply# 10 12/13/2014 at 09:32 (3,413 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Could we not categorize all those Singer vacs of the 1950's and 1960's as being coloured taupe? In real life, the taupe colouring was a brownish purple. Maybe these Singers were trendsetters well before taupe became trendy?
I am especially referring to the taupe Singer canisters made by Eureka Williams. | ||
| Post# 308696 , Reply# 11 12/13/2014 at 09:57 (3,413 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 308775 , Reply# 13 12/14/2014 at 05:57 (3,412 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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The Singer attachments made by Eureka definitely had a "grape" or "purple" tone to them....our neighbours The Wexlers had a Roll-a-Magic Singer and as a toddler, I was often lucky enough to be visiting my friend Shelley Wexler when it was being used!
I would agree that the colour is Rose Taupe, though I just found a website calling it Metal Taupe.... It is so weird that the term taupe comes from the French word for a rat-like animal. | ||
| Post# 308850 , Reply# 14 12/14/2014 at 23:20 (3,412 days old) by ronni (USA) | ||
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Instead of the rodents, I was thinking of the other mole homonym--skin spots. | ||
| Post# 308862 , Reply# 15 12/15/2014 at 06:50 (3,411 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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It seems that the origin of the term "taupe" is from the colour of the mouse-like animal known as a mole.
It was originally used to describe a grayish-brown colour, but in the last century the use of the term expanded to include a wide array of tones of grayish-brown. I think we can even go back to the Hoover line-up in the late 1940's to see taupe-coloured vacs. Look at this advertisement from 1949: CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 308887 , Reply# 16 12/15/2014 at 14:19 (3,411 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
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Brian - That color in the ad for the Model 28 is sort of misleading. It is really a tan - known as British Tan. But, yeah, I can see the gray influence in it, too. BTW, the darker hood color was known as British Brown, at least by the paint suppliers of the wrinkle-finish paint sold to replace it. It is almost impossbile to get EITHER color now, though I have heard that the darker brown is still around. I have not personally seen either color (in a wrinkle-finish) in YEARS. | ||
| Post# 308914 , Reply# 18 12/15/2014 at 19:47 (3,411 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 309731 , Reply# 19 12/23/2014 at 18:45 (3,403 days old) by vintagevaclover (Athens, GA) | ||
Does this count? | ||
| Post# 309737 , Reply# 20 12/23/2014 at 20:59 (3,403 days old) by ronni (USA) | ||
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Yes, that counts. Taupe has a variety of shades, so it's close to one of them if nothing else. Thanks for posting. | ||
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