A BURNING QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 13

A BURNING QUESTION

FEMININE INDECISION

Ta""> Mingle or not to Mingle? That is the question agitating feminine minds and imbuing .West End hairdressing saloons: with uncertainty, (writes Lady; Patricia Ward in the "Daily Mail*?)." Ever, sines-six British hairdressing ex-: perts, at; a .meeting of the Hairdressers r General Committee, launched a new vogue of short; tighi; curls in;"the nape of "the 'neck and loose-waves on the crown of the head, christening the whole the "Mingle, .women have divided themselves into three schools of thought. There are those in favour of the newstyle, those against it, and the third, and perhaps strongest, contingent who are still undergoing!the agonies of indecision. WAVE OF ENTHUSIASM. "It,, is still too new a fashion to be generally popular," said tho manager of a Mayf air.establishment. "All our clients are interested in it, but few as yet have been brave enough to adopt it. They consider it too drastic a change, since it entails cutting those few inches of hair they have grown so painstakingly. I feel sure that another few months /will suffice to convert them all." ■■•".:. At another West End saloon the manager said: " All ; day long clients are asking to be Mingled. They are attracted by the originality and the comfort of the new style.'' "A. good many of our customers have already.-adopted the Mingle," it was stated at a third house. "The others are all interested, but a few dismiss it with the scathing remark: 'My dear, one would have to" live at one's hairdresser's to keep those curls and waves in place.' This, of course, is not tho case, as the Mingle is extremely practical. It is-a. form of hairdressing that has coma-iolstajiil:!-'>::'