For the vast majority of my life, washing machines and dryers were nearly perfectly square, squirreled away in the basement, and generally came in one of two colours: white or taupe.
In recent years, they have become sleek, colourful, and now adopt a position of prominence within the house. Consider for example that this is what greeted me upon entering a department store the othe day:
Was I in the appliance department? No. I was, in fact, in children's clothing and this applicance set was very prominently displayed at a T intersection I walked up to as soon as I came into the store. Look at these, I mean really look at them. The colour is fire engine red, the buttons are stereo like, and they come with drawers on the bottom.
So, my question is simply this. What in the H-E double hockey sticks happened to spur on this radical change in applicance appearences? More specifically, which designer woke up one morning and said "I'm going to make washing applicances sexy"? Something like that must surely of happened because clothes washing applicances could have evolved even moderately at any point in the last 20 years, but for some reason they didn't!
Anyhow, just another random thought to make up my two cents for the day
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