HATS AND HAIR.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 11

HATS AND HAIR.

THE SCULPTURED LOOK

There- is still more short hair than long in Paris, and the wealth of long hair seen in England finds no parallel there. Nor are there quite so many platinum . and . peroxide blondes, and, for some unfortunate reason, this fashion is mostly adopted by the older women. If hair is long the- Frenchwoman must see to it that it is also entirely formal and sophisticated. That is to say, if it is long behind, it must be worn in the- stiffest possible horizontal, roll, wheh will stand out by itself from the nape of the neck and which often completes the- hat and give it a sort of twist at the end. Hats and hair become much involved, and it is impossible to separate many of them. A hat is worn completely over one ear, ivhere it forms a sort of bandeau, including one side of the forehead. On the other side the hair is swept down and plastered there to form the other side. There- is no hint of anything that looks like hair in the' ordinary sense. I

The shorter kinds of hair are given the sculptured look by means of some unguent -liich sticks the individual hairs together and makes them able to be moulded into any particular shape. The wind-swept hair, which looks more like a yokel fringe or a Cockney quif in the wrong place, is popular, though it is used with discretion. A bald forehead may have a piece of windswept hair over one temple. Some.of the short pieces of hair that are plastered here and there on the forehead to suit a particular hat look rather like a short feather that is dipped in oil. Portions of it coalesce and end in a little curve. Hair is brushed- in any direction, but in every case it must adhere closely to the head and anything less . wind-swept in appearance can hardly; be imagined. Bed dye is popular.