WAR IN THE HAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 5 May 1926, Page 11

WAR IN THE HAIR.

' i SHINGLE, BINGLE, 803- -- -- PUFFS AXB FJ3TS. ! i ! (By C 3.> Every now acd again these ballons d r essai are seat up. io far they have aii g'jiie off pop in one way or auotiier. scaie Lave laiiea en stony gruund. seme ■ nave been sat on, and others, have jua£ i t.uTst- But unless we keep a very i -watcfiful eye on tnese sinister intrigues Iwe may wake up some day to tind Usat I tne enemy is within the gate. Here is tae latest attempt on our. ■ happiness, uttered by a gentleman who li≤ very eminent in the world oi hair- ! dressing: 'liie shingled bead is doomed. The ! roil oi hair at the nape of the neck is alrtady returning in Paris. When this had been established a fuller dressing on '. iie side wilJ be attempted, ana . ""pun" curl? mounted en pins will be atuiriicd until the hair is sumcientlv I long; ij misery! Roils, and puffs, curls and ' pins: liyw dreadful it all rounds. How like one of those weddicsr-cakes. fourteen See;: hish. How like horsehair sofas a<i.i vtsi 3ow«?rs under gia-?s shades. How like gentlemen wita Duadreary . whiskers gating in awe on the Crystal i i'aiatv. Hoy.- like Victorian ladies with I tiiree petticoats, preparing to put en a . roiirtii. How awfui: But surely it will never be allowed. ■. iWe who have lived wita a sort of Greek i simplicity and in these matters ! can never slip back into tlie 'eighties. ; Yet the danger is always there, and j ail the time tiie dark forces of reaction j are sapping and mining, launchins their; prcnuneiamentcs. teilin? us what is | coming nest, insisting that there is ■ virtue in retrogression, trying to robj onr women of that diminutive crown of glory which the hairdressers placed ] thtrre with so much pomp a few years; ago. I As a matter of fact raon of onr' . hairdressers do not want to cjanac. They ] are doing very well as they are. In view i oi tae iatt==! attempt to dethrone . beauty. 1 determined to interview ■ ; several hairdressers. One I I caught just as he was stepping out of j I his 00 h-p. Lecarno-Geyser to play j j squash racket*. Another I caught at ; I lunch, at the Fritz. A third I found in ; liis Roman bath. The nr?T said: Ycu ni£y say freni mc. ! i sair. zat rair is no need for a change in i : "airdressing. What we - need is ze! abolition of zze super-tax. Ozzerwise- I j ,go hack to Czecho-Slovakia. The second said: De-a ladies neva; , looka more lovely. W:th such ter-rr-iblo ' ; depression in de shipbuilding industry I . it would be madness to abolish shinsrling. ■ i If so I go back to Italy. ! The third said: Drade brosberityi . hanks'by a sinkie hair. Apolish shinklin? ; J und you but der lid on dad revival of j drade vich to efery Enklish heart sol ! dear is. If hairbins gum back I shaH j ;to Shermany return. Recently I made an appeal that onr i present charming feminine fashions j i should be constrained by law to remain I j exactly as they are. Having arrived j jat a point of perfection, it seems like i j asking for disaster to go any further, j ! We are bound to fare worse. And the soul of all this delightful! ! perfection is the shingle—with its ■ sisters, the well-known Misses Binsle ! j and Bob. Abolish these, and you • I abolish all that is spiritually akin* to j J them—the silk stockinsrs. the generous • j revelation of extremities which are! now such a pleasant feature of the' j landscape, and all the rest of it. What! Jis more, no girl with long hair would { i ever dare to wear Russian boots. . c he j j would look too much like a real Russian,- j There are Leagues for everything.! j most of them unnecessary. There* ousrht j to be formed at once a league to save! shingling. Fcr once we could give j Geneva, the go-by. Paris would do. I j have one in mind who would represent ■ Britain en the council with Srmness. j disniry. and aplomb. And this time Ij I take it Gf rmany wou'd come in without j j any onibMinsr. even if she bad to arrive j l arm-in-arm with hlnsaii"? reoresen-1 j tative of the Sandwich IsTands.