"YOKEL" FRINGES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 7

"YOKEL" FRINGES

A LITTLE LONGER NOW

Hair has perhaps grown a little longer in Paris. At least much more of it shows under the bowler and the Louis Quinzo hat, writes an authority. This ir so much.the case that where the hat is tilted.over to one side there is often a velvet band gripping the curled hair to make quite sure that it stays in place." ' ■;•' ' '- ' Until now, however, there has been uo very distinctively new note in the matter of hair. At the dress collections this note has how been sounded. At first it looked like an accident. A very fashionably dressed woman appeared with a \fringo that, had not hitherto been. seen. She was so correctly dressed in other respects that tho fringe could not be taken for an accident!, It was combed down over her forehead and combed forward from the ears. • If had been carefully tapered and, instead of the hair making an even effect,, it looked almost stuck apart in little pieces, as though a yokel had tried to arrange his fringe or a Cockney his quiff with no manner of success.

Sometimes the yokel fringe extends right down to the ears. Sometimes it 'only decorates the forehead. So that there'may be no mistake about it, it is stuck down, lest the wind disorder its disorder. It is quito true that it gives a vacant suggestion, even, perhaps, an open mouth. But it is so deliberate, and. a great many highly intelligent people have enjoyed concealing their wits under a. foolish expression, that, there is, perhaps more reason in it titan would at first sight appear. At least the yokel fringe.attracted a good deal of attention, oven more than the white hair, Black -marquise .-'hat, ' rouge- and patch ' of' another ■ aspirant to striking hair-dressing. ' ;•'■■'■_-.