ART OF NUTTING

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 294, 7 September 1932, Page 4

ART OF NUTTING

Making a Cap for Hair It is a long time since netted curtain? adorned the English window, starched, as they were, to. maintain a becoming stiffness. But netted mats have had an innings, and there are also stalwarts who do not mind achieving sore fingers in the interest of tennis and other garden nets. Where netting is really useful tb-day is in the making, not exactly of caps, which keep the waved hair in order at night, but of a shape which shall answer the same purpose. The hair-cap very rarely really meets the case, because all heads are of different sizes. Also a cap with a rigid border is apt to stretch aud to form a bulge which has to be pleated in order to retain a fitting covering for the head. For the essence of keeping a permanent wave in order is that it shall remain flat at night, and this implies something which is not heavy, but which, keeps it in the position in which it is set. A net triangle is the best shape for this purpose. The wide side is stretched over the forehead, and the two ends are long enough to be passed round the nape of the neck, crossed over, and tied on the top of the head. The third end, which is held down by the other two, is turned up and pinned in position about where the tie of the other two is situated. Thin mercerised cotton in any colour can be chosen for this purpose, or silk may be used if it is preferred. Any mesh that is chosen represents only half the size of the niesh (hat will ensue. A mesh of about a third of an inch will involve the casting of about sixty stitches, two of which must be discarded with each row of netting. Thus a good hair-net is made with very little trouble, which will contain adequately any permanent wave that is set under it.