German Hair-dresser To Introduce “Teen” Style

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 2

German Hair-dresser To Introduce “Teen” Style

The “teen-age line” may become as well-established in New Zealand as the new hair-style trends introduced each year for sophisticated women. A visiting German hairdresser, stylist and demonstrator, Mr Gunter Roeffen, would like to see young women take as much interest in hair fashion as in clothes and records. He will introduce his version of the “teen-age line” at a showing of hair fashion in Christchurch this evening.

Called the taznoure after the currently popular dance and music farm, the style will follow the newest hair fashion "volume” look, but care will be taken not to produce an

overdressed. "hair-dresser” effect Mr Roeffen yesterday expressed the hope that It would replace the “overteased, over-bleached” hair ■till favoured by many young «Wb.

“In any case, teasing the hair is out, although a little back-combing is still used," he said. “High hair styles also are past history.” Representing Wells, of Germany, Mr Roeffen is in New Zealand to introduce the 1963-64 colours and styles in hair fashion. The volume ■tyle had been called “tel•tar” hi Germany. The hair was brushed forward from the neckline to the faceline in one direction, with the volume on the top of the head.

This was one of four versions of this season's trend. The others included “opera,” a French line introduced in

New Zealand earlier this year. "Royal," which is only two or three weeks old. is similar to “telstar,” but adaptations such as fringes ere allowed for a softer, less compact, effect The hair is cut to between two and four inches all over the head, although for other lines the maximum length is five inches, to give extra height. “Derby" was created in Austria. This was a short, “sporty” looking crop, designed for the summer. The hair was still brushed towards the face, but needed the special “volume" cut—the

underneath layers of hair cut shorter than the top layers, to give body to the hair. The new colours were designed specially to give “cocktail” colour to blonde and light-coloured hair, Mr Roeffen said. They were violet and pinky tones, and shades in the beige colour range. Properly used, they should produce a very subtle effect. Mr Roeffen described hair colour as “make-up" to complete face cosmetics and good grooming. During his four weeks in New Zealand, Mr Roeffen had seen many women wearing lovely hair styles, and he thought there was much interest in new and different ideas. But New Zealanders were as diffident about promoting their own trends as they were of locally-made products—clothes and wines tor example. “Women could show more initiative and not be shy about wearing something different,” he said. “But the hair-dresser, for his part, must present a new fashion in the right way and on the right person. If a hair-dresser knows his fashion, he win sell the new styles easily,” Mr Roeffen said. From Christchurch, Mr Roeffen will 9y to Hong Kong and Bangkok to give demonstrations before returning to Germany. He has not seen his homeland for two years and a half, as his job has kept him constantly travelling. New Zealand is the seventyninth country he has visited in 11 years, and his firm is represented in 86 countries. Mr Roeffen is one of three master hair-dressers to have won tfce coveted gold medal award from the Club Artistique of Paris. He is keen on colour photography and takes television films tor his firm. An experienced racing driver, he has driven on major circuits in Europe and Austra- ’ Ila.