Good Grooming Begins With Neat Coiffure

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 2

Good Grooming Begins With Neat Coiffure

A good grooming gives every woman the kind of lift she needs now and then to make her enjoy being herself. For the wilting mother or the bored stenographer, a little attention to personal appearance can be more stimulating than a course of vitamin pills.

“Enjoy being you by making the best of yourself and your children, too, will enjoy you the more; the office staff will look on you with new interest. Everyone in your immediate circle will be happier for the effort you have made.”

That is the theory of American women (no one calls them vain) and they are probably the happiest and most affectionate women in the world. Good grooming does not mean mink, diamonds, and jewelled stiletto heels. A freshly-laun-dered cotton frock and wellpolished flats can be just as effective. It is that neat, quietlyconfident look which brings the results and it begins with the hair. First Step A well-styled coiffure, natural, becoming and sprayed to hold the most casual set, is the first stage in a process that puts wings on heavy heels. To focus attention on good grooming for women of Christchurch and to raise funds for the Christchurch Parents’ Centre, Mrs Lorna Hyslop arranged a hairstyling demonstration at the Mayfair last evening. Public curiosity in the evening show was aroused by a midday parade through the city yesterday with models wearing the latest hair styles (in the newest fashion rinses), black “sllnkies” and leopards. They carried imported toy poodles tinted to match or tone with their own aoiffures. They rode in veteran cars.

The models’ hair styling and tinting had been done by a firm of specialists. Experts had also given six of the eight poodles their unusual colours, which will wash out in the first bath. Only the snow white dog and jet black one were left in. their natural state. These were escorted by models in frosty silver and brown streaked with green-gold rinses.

.’he eight glamorous girls and their toy dogs looked as if they had dropped out of the grey skies, straight from Paris. Even the poodles, of a total value of some £l5OO, seemed to enjoy the jaunt—all except the one dyed April green, which looked resentful and gave the impression that this was not her favourite shade. The poodles were lent by Christchurch owners. Special Occasions

Apricot bronze, Caribbean pink, April green, glacier blue, and lilac are not colours young women and prize poodles want to wear in their hair every day. These tones are for very special occasions.

The parade was designed to catch the eye of lunch hour crowds. That is why the transport used was a 1911 Unic delivery van and an F.N. of the same year. It’s fun to be frivolous once in a while in a workaday world. That was the idea behind the parade. Transformation Last evening at the Mayfair Lounge, a capacity audience watched a transformation. Mrs Patrick Goulding, mother of four young children, stepped on to the demonstration platform to have her rather long brown hair cut and tinted by Mr Russell Hyslop. . She went away to have it rinsed and styled, and spent most of the evening sitting under a hair-drier in a back room.

When she returned to the platform, her hair was combed into a soft nut brown cap by Mr Hyslop, and when she stood up the audience applauded. Altogether, 22 models with hair colours that started with pale pastels and went to black, stepped up on to the platform with their hair done up in pins and nets, and the audience watched as it was combed into some of the most popular current styles. Among the styles were “The Swan” and “The Cygnet,” with wings of hair combed away from the face, “Mon Bijou.” waving softly from the face; “Mia Bella,” smoothed down at the front from

a short parting and waving softly over the back of the head. More exotic were the evening styles—“ Las Vegas” shaped on gold hair striped at the front with silver lilac, and "Fantasy,” which Mr Hyslop spent nearly an hour shaping into an intricate pile of puffs and waves, recalling the elaborate waving and styling of 10 years ago. In her commentary, Mrs Hyslop pointed out that, in contrast, pre-sent-day styling was simple. Hair today, she said, was mostly short, not curly, and soft, depending for its effect on good cutting.

Other styles were “La Chatte,” combed over at the sides to give the head a cat-like look, and two adaptations of geisha styles, one of which, tinted to a bronze-black shade, was later combed into an authentic geisha dressing. There was also a head of hair coloured black, with chartreuse green stripes over the sides. Most of the styling was done by men, and the poodles who paraded earlier in the day were there, too.

It was quite a well-groomed audience that watched. Most of the hair looked as if it had been well brushed for the occasion and brightening with colour is obviously becoming popular with Christchurch women.