RAID ON LOVE-LOCKS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1918, Page 6

RAID ON LOVE-LOCKS.

OFFICIAL BAN OX TOMMY'S "QUIFF." "Tommy" -is to be robbed of his "love-lock." No more will he swagger up the street with his well oiLd "quiff," his cap at an angle to disp'ay the plastered forelock. With hi.s cap at a, dead level, well pulled down to hid. l liis lost locks, he will try to impress foh-.s with the idea that hat and net hair form the natural covering. The new insteiutien, which is in i,n interest of health .and cleanliness, r<.-.-..-> as follows: "Men's hair will be cut evenly al] over the head and a. fringe is not to be left in front." This means good-by to the outcrop of hair that was once the soldier's pride and glory. Though the back of his head was reaped as elcse as t':e hair on a tooth brush, the dandy private always kept a luxuriant tuft just over his forehead. This capillary attraction ho either brushed carefully upward or plastered across his brow. But now the quiff is to go. It offends the aesthetic eve of the officer commanding, likewise the sanitary scruples of the medical office! 1 , and in future the regimental barber of the blankshires must put the horse clippers .all over back and front until his victim's head looks like a field just after harvest time. The real reason for the new order is, not to copy flm German custom of a close cropped poll, but the outcome of the observation of the medical officers who have been dealing with the subject of insect disease carriers at the cleansing stations both behind the front lines and at the bases.