BOBBED HAIR MEANS MORE WAGES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 9

BOBBED HAIR MEANS MORE WAGES

One of the items of increased expenditure entailed upon business girls' which wap put forward as justifying no increase in women's wages at an inquiry which is being held by the South Australian Board of Industry was the cost of bobbing the hair. Bobbed hair has become almost a commonplace in all the Australian cities, but that it should become a charge on industry presents it in a new aspect and mere man, hitherto only mildly interested in it, is likely to formulate more definite opinions.

Evidence regarding the increased' cost of living for women on account of the latest fashion for the hair was given by Mrs. Annie Eadfor'd, who said that bobbed hair was a good thing for girls, and, as a mother, she quite recommended it. All her girls had had their hair bobbed, even a married one, whose husband quite approved of it. It made the. girls look well, and it was rA^-h easier for them, but it cost a lot of money. The increased expense was incurred by reason of the fact that the hair had to be attended to at least every fortnight, to keep in accordance with the fashion. ;

The president (Mr. Brown): "I thought the important question of bobbed hair had been decided in the negative?" -

Counsel : "Oh, no. They are shingling now.