Fashions In Hair.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 11

Fashions In Hair.

WOMEN WHO PREFER RED. VOGUE IN LONDON AND PARIS. Red-haired women, so long overshadowed by their blondo sisters, are coming into their own again. Hairdressers in London and Paris state that a reaction has set in against the once all-conquering blonde. Many blondo women, it is asserted, are having their hair dyed red—not a flaming Titian, but a “deep shado of coppory chestnut.” A cabaret in the Champs Elysces in Paris first reintroduced the fashion by engaging a troupe of red-haired dancers. Now the. managers of soveral theatres in Paiis arc looking for “red-heads.” There is no sign yet of blondes being ousted from tho choruses of musical ontortainments in London, but tho head of a leading school for manikins stated recently that there is a growing demand for red-haired models. ‘ ‘ Manikins with natural red hair are very scarce/ she said “Hair of this colour looks very lovely, particularly with evening dress, and any skilled model with beautiful red hair can safely say that her hair is her fortune. She is always m deofficial of the Hairdressers’ Genoral Committee, an organisation representing more than 10,000 hairdressers said:—There are signs that red hair will bccomo as popular as it was just before the war. Women are finding it difficult and expensive to keep fair hair in condition and properly dressed. Bleached hair is an excellent foundation for the new tint.” Women with natural red hair who, according to anthropologists, are fast disappearing, are supposed to possess social characteristics. They arc, for instance, said to bo quicker tempered, more efficient, more painstaking, and less liable to illness than are their fairer sisters.