HAIRDRESSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

HAIRDRESSING.

j, In Psiris (writes our correspondent) the evening head-dress fever is raging brightly. In this connection women — very often women of really fine taste —are coquetting with the spirit of exaggeration. .Many of the latest head-dresses suggest, and in no uncertain manner, the music-hall stage; amazing combinations of feathers and jewels, not to speak of wisps of tulle and metallic ribbons, lend undue importance to the head and throw the figure, clad in clinging draperies and heavily fringed laces, out of proportion. Such is the power of fashion. But happily there is another side to the question. Some of our best hairdressers are achieving delightful results by comparatively simple means; silky hair is parted at some unusual point, drawn back from the face and rolled up into a picturesque likeness of a " bobbed" head. The parting is the important thing. Sometimes it is placed very much to one side, sometimes it outlines the forehead, leaving a light veil of hair to fall forward, this veil being caught down by a narrow band of metallic ribbon or jewelled cord, and then rolled back over the ears. Sometimes there is a very long middle parting, which reaches to the back of tke head, the hair being slightly pressed forward and twisted into coils over the ears. The most popular parting of the moment is that placed low down at the left side, the hair having been softly curled instead of waved, with a large curved comb made of cut jet catching down coils which form a sort of chignon on the nape of the neck. The other night, at the opera, I saw a jet ornament shaped like a crescent moonworn low down on the forehead. The hair was parted in the middle and simply drawn back over the ears, a loose coil falling low on the nape of the neck. I must again lay stress on the fact that jet ear-rings and combs are literally the craze of the seaso*. And the latest and most successful, jet earring takes the form of thin rings, as large as a five-shilling piece, with smaller rings dangling loose inside. Oat jet is combined with jade and with lapis lazuli, small rose diamonds often appearing in the interstices of the ( work. | Close-fitting tnrbans made of metallic tulle are worn with tea-gowns and restcoatees. The Parisiennes are fond of arranging head-dresses of this order themselves each time they are worn. In this way a very individual head-dress can be achieved, something that will closelv follow the outline of the head and display its fine curves: of course, only the most supple materials can be used in this connection with success.