NEW COIFFURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 17

NEW COIFFURES

"A SAILOR'S FORELOCK"

At a meeting held recently in Bondon, British hairdressers declared war on the style ol coiffure which nine out of every ten women have adopted during the past few years, states the London correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald." Curls will be the glory of the new fashions which they are fostering. . Curls will fall over the forehead in what has been termed "a.sailor's forelock"; they will pile on top of the head like those of a Hawaiian girl; or cluster at the nape of the heck as grandma's curls did. "I LIKE THE HAWAIIAN STYLE." '■Personally, I like the ' Hawaiian style," said one prominent hairdresser. "It leaves the neck and forehead delightfully free for hot days. The tight curls need little attention and look most becoming, I think, with swimming suits or tennis frocks. "To cultivate this fashion, brush your hair up from the base of the neck vigorously, and as often as possible. Then have it trained and set in curls by a hairdresser." For the sailor's forelock, the hair is cut quite short or left in tight, short curls. The platinum-blonde has been dismissed as "too cold." The correct colours for this year are tobaccoblonde or red. One hairdresser at the meeting became lyrical about hair. "It is blonde hair which has trapped all the warmth and glow of the sun; all the gold of the beach; and the gleam of the firelight," he said. ' "A weak red-tinted dye applied very carefully to ordinary fair hair will create this glowing effect," he added, "but only if the hair is healthy.. Ten minutes' brushing, night and morning, is needed to keep hair sparkling and virile. Without that, no fashion looks really effective, and the new styles, particularly -'The Duchess,' fail to achieve the right effect." THE SECRET OF THE WAVE. While hairdressers were deliberating, Professor W. T. Astbury. was also talking about hair. His address was given at the International Congress of Physical Medicine to doctors from twenty countries, who had gathered in London. The professor said: "Hair in water will stretch to half again its original length." Afterwards it returns to normal. When women have their hair curled and set, or permanently waved, their hair stretches. This causes a molecular breakdown in the linkage of the hair. Hair is the most elastic substance in Nature. Indeed, it is possible to stretch hair to double its original length."

The "molecular breakdown," it. seems, results. in the change in the hair's construction, which gives us those glorious, if expensive, waves.