STUDY YOUR HAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 19

STUDY YOUR HAIR

BECOMING 1937 COIFFURES

PARTINGS AND CURLS

IMPORTANT

Choosing a new way of dressing your hair is an important part of your 1937 campaign, states an overseas writer. If your hair is ai'i wrong your hats won't look right, and the smartest clothes will not- look well with an unfashionable head.

Do not think that the smartest type of coiffure is necessarily unbecoming. If you choose a hairdresser who really knows his job, he will dress your hair in a style which is essentially yours and which is. at the same time, typical of the new mode.

We are all apt to be a little conservative where new hairdressing styles are concerned, and it requires quite an effort to put your head at the mercy of a coiffeur. But he probably knows what style suits you far better than you do. He also knows more about the growth and texture of your hair in five minutes than you have learnt in a lifetime, so don't bring him a portrait of your favourite film star and ask him to copy her ' style of hairdressing upon your own head.

For one thing, your hair may well be the type which simply refuses to lie that way and it probably wouldn't suit your features if it did!

Among the new styles there is a frame for every face.

Some of them give a rather hard effect to the features and this must, of course, be avoided by the average woman. The off-the-brow styles where the hair is brushed back and off- the ears to form a subdued mass of rather loose curls at the back, has a softer, effect if the brushed-back hair is very loosely waved so'that it gently curves away from the hair-line.

Sometimes a curved half-fringe may: be: arranged at one side- of the-fore-head to break the hard line, or a curl or two placed flatly, and curving upwards at the temple may have a softening effect. , ~' ■■ '• ■ ■ ,'

Centre partings may be rendered becoming by cutting and tapering the top layer of' hair, so that, however sleek and smooth the main part of the coiffure may be, there are still a few ends at the sides of the top which curve upwards in graceful little curls.

Whether your back curls are kept very high on the crown of the head, or low in the nape of the neck is a matter for you and your hairdresser to decide.

.He will be.guided by the.shape Of your profile, no doubt, but if you look charming cuh. r way ; then you should remembervtl~at curls ar -anged high on the,head and curving upwards usually have a younger and more alert effect than curls which are arranged lower.

The position of ihe parting also calls for thought and, again, a study of your features. Today many partings have a definite "sideways tilt," and are often quite short to enable the back curls to peep over the top of the head.

-For evening, coiffures are much more elaborate. Some have a Marie Antoinette effect, wiih long curls piled on the head, and one or two gracing one side of the neck and resting on the shoulder.

But for most of us it is easier to keep a few curls, handy to pin upon our heads at night, or to ornament a slightly loosened day-time coiffure with feathers or flowers, a wisp of tulle or, a glittering clip as fancy and fashion dictates.