HAIR VOGUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 11

HAIR VOGUES.

UNTIDY STYLES.

Paris shops are full of hair-curlers •nd hairpins of every sort and kind' — n tribute to the upward trend of the hiilr and to the chignon which appeared at the last Longohamp meeting 'in all the glory of the 'seventies. On the top of the chignon is a confection made of ribbon or feather, which merely crowns the work and can hardly Ik> called « hat. It is aad to confess that hair at the moment in Huprcmcly untidy, and not all the net container# «ceui able to make it otherwise. The page boy style tlourishcK here. From the back the effect can only be described as dwarfing. It takes away the neck, and as the hair liah to bo more or lcs* stuck together it takes away any quality that remains to it. The platinum blonde flourishes here and there still, but she is beginninix t'> look rather like the ultra-fair d<>|l which delights the primitive mind. Instead are the heavy lumps of hair which constitute the page-boy and the chignon. They make the wearer look years older than she is, and if it is bcttei for not every one to look like a debutante, the oUI-making styles do not see in to be the only alternatives. Curls for the moment are confined to tho older generation, which does not know what to do about it. The youngei wniurn combine the with cml* rolled forward on the head and balanced on the top of it all is something eccentric in the form of hat. Heads look like -iivs just row. perhaps appropriately. They are no doubt a reaction against the corrugations of the "perm- Bill hair has ntill the appearance of being tortured Into shape and nobody seem* to i i;.'. ivate any longer it* intrinsic