BALDNESS IN WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 2

BALDNESS IN WOMEN.

THE SHINGLE AND TIGHT HATS. (FKCit OUR 017* CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON,'January 25. "When shingling first became universal, [ ventured," writes the Medical Correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle/' "to prophesy that before long many women, especially those who were no longer young, would find to their dismay that they were growing bald. "This forecast was vigorously poohpoohed in a great many papers, both lay and medical, and in some women's papers it was treated with that ingenious asperity usually reserved for religious controversy. "It is pleasing to a prophet's vanity to say, 'I told you so'; I may therefore be pardoned if I record the tact that I have recently seen it stated in at least one woman's paper that the now admitted tendency to baldness among women was due to a combination of the shingle and the tight hat. "I am not concerned to • deny the complicity of the tight hat, but conconcerning it would merely point out that in the absence of the shingle it would not _ be • operative ; so that in reality it is the shingle which is the real villain of the piece. 1 ,'A fter there is no mystery about +* f ;SS ' s due to that want of attention which is so much facilitated by short hair. When this factor is reinforced by a. hat which is tight enough to interfere with the circula--1011 in the scalp, the result in a very in doubt " ' SCO P' e can scarc ®'y '* c