HAIR-DRESSING FASHIONS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 3

HAIR-DRESSING FASHIONS

TO RE MORE REVERE. Hairdressing fashions are growing more severe, says Margaret Stewart in an .English paper. Rince the summer, subtle vet none the less definite changes have been taking place hi the hairdressing fashions, changes to which the smart woman must conform if she wishes to maintain her reputation for being smart. The chief trend of the 1932-33 coiffure is towards simplicity, and both Hie windblown bob and untidy looking curls at the nape of the neck are already looked upon as yesterday's freak coiffures. Hair is shorter and must cling in the head sleekly, as my own coiffeur explained the other day when lie thinned out- my hair more drastically and tapered it more closely at the base of the neck than he has ever done before. SHOWTXG THE E.VRE. Those women who can wear their hair cut to show the ears, very short at the hack, and only long enough at the top and sides to form one or two deep waves, which are either brushed back from the forehead, or from a side, or just near fhe centre-parting are very fortunate —for this is the quite the most up-to-date hairdressing. So all you who possess a tiny, y>: ell-shaped_hcad And. pretty ears,, please note.

-Even if you have a coiffure arranged. with/ large waves ending in flat, severe jittle curls' at fhe sides and above the line where the hair is tapered at the hack, it must he sleek and well-groomed and above all, it must shine.

So all those women whose locks are apt to he dull-looking would do well to embark on a special course of frequent shampoos, each followed by a. judicious touch of hrillinntine and careful brushing.

If yon wash your hair at homo, remember that two ieaspoonfids of either vinegar or lemon juice added to the rinsing water after the shampoo not only have a very brightening effect, but make the hair wonderfully soft and amenable to coaxing into waves, if it happens to have even the slightest trace of a natural kink.

The other day I was present at a hairdressing display which tool, p ace in a well-known Vest End salon, and one noticed how 'smooth and sleek and glassy were the coiffures displayed in turn by blonde and hiunette mannequins, LIKE PATENT LEATHER. The brunette had the more severe coiffure; her hair shone Eke patent leather, and was brushed across sideways, at the back from a parting. It was softened at the sides by just the faintest suggestion of half-curls. or perhaps it would be more -correct to call them hair-curves. The blonde bad softer hairdressing, but all the same her sleek hair moulded her head, even the Huy flot sculptured curls set high above the nape of her neck clung to it closely without a hair out ol place. Each famous coiffeur has Ids own special hairdressing secrets. To be a successful fashionable coiffeur necessitates a great, deal of inventive geniue—as witness the recent introduction, for instance, of a phosphorescent evening coiffure'which shines out. in the dark. TO SUIT THE HAT. But "one thing is certain if those tiny hats of ours arc to be worn as they should be worn, on one side of the head leaving the hair on the other, quite at tho mercy of the elements, the hair must he dressed so that ‘itfreranina smooth and sleek, even. though the-east winds blow.

hence the value of good setting lotions. to say nothing of a hair-net. Many women wind it a. practical idea to wear hair-nets under their hats out-of-doors now, even as then’ mothers and grandmothers did years a go.