WILL THE SHINGLE LAST?

Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 10

WILL THE SHINGLE LAST?

The problem has always been a problem till now. But it is no longer (writes an ‘Evenings News’ representative). The fashion experts have settled it definitely. Their verdict is:— Long hair—dead. Eton crop—dying. Shinging—come to stay for another ten years at least. It was announced at the hairdressers’ exhibition, which recently opened at the Royal Horticultural Half. There were mannequins showing all tho latest styles of heads—young mannequins and middle-aged mannequins, and even elderly mannequins, all with their own sorts of hair. But the shingled head was the head triumphant. 81. Charles Kropacsy has just returned from an inspection of the hair of Europe and America, and he said to me:—

“ Take my word for it,_ shingling will last for another generation. In America the hairdressers have just spent a fortune in trying to persuade women to go back to long hair. They have failed. “Why? Just because the modern woman won’t be bothered by long hair any more. “There’s a reaction against the Eton crop, though. Lots of women are going back to the shingle. The Eton crop was an excess, and women aro realising it. “ In Vienna I saw something new. “ The women there are having heads of short, curly .hair, just like the ancient Greek statues. Will that fashion come to London? Oh, I don’t know.” The experts will tell you that the London girl’s hair is as smart to-day as the hair of the girl of any other nation. “ Five years ago, no,” said one of them, as he arranged a collection of tubes like a mechanical octopus, for waving a woman’s hair. “ But to-dav—they can hold their own with Now York and Paris.” They say, too, the experts do, that a smart woman nowadays spends about £24. a year on keeping, her hair in order —two permanent wavings at 6)gs each, and a fortnightly shampoo and water wave at 7s 6d each.