The bobbed hair tax, which is being levied in Tyrolese villages, may load to a change in hairdressing fashion, as was the case itj England when Pitt taxed the powder that decked the polls of the dandies and flunkey! of the eighteenth century. The tax then was a guinea a head, and the "guinea-pigs” soon dropped the powder. The “curling irons, the curling comb, the pomatum pot, the powder puff, the powder knife, and the powder mask” soon disappeared, and many good citizens copied Bonaparte and wore their hair short cropped. The most popular rendezvous at the Exhibition is the “Three Castlea,” the gateway to the Amusement Park.—CAd via
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Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 4
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109Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 4
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