THE HAIR-CURLER
One might have thought that the permanent wave had abolished the hair-curler for ever. The contrary is the case, and shops are again becoming full of mysterious metal implements sueli as used to adorn tlie heads of lodging-house keepers from Monday morning till tlie following Sunday at dinner time. For tlie permanent wave is not as permanent as might be wished and really straight hair Ims a knack of rebelling against tlie astra-khan-like flock of curls into which it is regimented. Moreover, it is only for a comparatively short time at that best which is demanded every day. Hence the curlers, which include everything except the old curl-papers which Thackeray enjoyed caricaturing in “The Rose and the Ring." Curly hair nevertheless offers a perplexing problem. While the platinumblonde has to have It at all costs, her male equivalent spends his time trying to rid his hair of the fatal waves for which his sister longs. Tlie really woolly negro spends fortunes in hairstraighteners and the inventor of a mixture alleged to deal with wool died a millionaire.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 4
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179THE HAIR-CURLER Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 4
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