HAIRDRESSING MODES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 December 1927, Page 15

HAIRDRESSING MODES.

FROCK AND SHINGLE. “So long as skirts are short, hair will be short.” That was the answer given to practically every one who, at the Hairdressing Exhibition in London. asked if the shingle would remain. There is considerable variety, even in the shingle, and the hairdresser’s art has now reached such perfection .nut there is no longer such a tiling as a standardised cut. On living models it was shown how much variety can be obtained in the cut, the wave, and the “set” of the hair.

Women are being encouraged to dress to harmonise with the way in which their hair is dressed. The importance of having the right kind of gown was empliasisted in a mannequin parade. A gill with an Eton crop was seen in a flimsy dress of transparent ninon, and a very feminine girl in a masculine dress of black satin, There seemed to be ’'something wrong with their appearance, and it was only after they had exchanged dresses that it was realised that previously the combination of dress and hairdressing had been wrong. Shingling is to stay —but with surprising elaboration in the style. This appears to be the lesson of the exhibition. For some time the popular style of hairdressing has remained comparatively unchanged. It has been neat and simple—the hair set in waves close to the sides and the crown of the head and cropped at the back At the exhibition is being shown a very striking variation of this style. A tall failwoman is to be seen with her golden hair waved on the crown in the usual way, but at the back worked into a froth of little curls which go tumbling right down to the nape of the neck, where they stop abruptly, just revealing a tiny fringe of close-crop-ped hair. Two ‘‘kiss curls” in front of the ears, which are left uncovered, complete this unusual coiffure. Ornamental slides are used to keep the hair in position.

The Curl is a variation of the semishingle obtained by 'water-curling the liair and then clipping it—i.e., the “clipped curl.” “Tne new fashion!” queried one of the hairdressing experts. “Well, a semi-shingle, just long enough to hold a good wave. Miss—!” and as a mannequin slid up he whipped out a green comb irom his pocket. Then, with the air of an artist, he traced the graceful waves on the heads of liis models

“Our oldest ‘shingle.” is seventyeight,” lie confided. “And she’s a lady from the Court, too! Buckingham Palace doesn’t hold with short hair. But it isn’t a bar to the Royal entree, or where would 90 per cent, of our customers be!”

Recamier’s, the French fashion firm are exhibiting some thirty dress models, designed with an eye to the coiffure of their wearer. On the stand of Charles Nestle is the original hairwaving machine, looking rather like one of the instruments of torture in the Tower of London. “It was worked with gas,” explained its keeper. “And it’s twenty-one years old. In those t|ays it took something like twelve hours to wave a head of hair. It was not very popular at first. Nowadays it can be done in about two hours at one-third the cost.”

The shingle is responsible, too, for a new and indispensable detail —the shingle cap. One firm at the exhibition showed about fifty different kinds. Many are made in Czecho-Slo-vakia by the peasants, but many, too, are British made, and are very smart in shape, and more or less decorative. Some, f-or sleeping in. are like babies’ bonnets, edged with lace and tied under the chin with pretty ribbons. Some kind of sleeping cap is advocated to prevent the shingle becoming disarranged.