HIGH COST OF HAIR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

HIGH COST OF HAIR.

GERMAN WOMEN COMPLAIN.

The high price of Chinese pigtails has become a cause for loud complaint by tho fashionable women of Germany. While they were forced to wear tho typical " Gretchen" braid during the war, because the supply of " auxiliary hair" from abroad was cut off, tho fashion of voluminous head decoration made a triumphal entry into Germany almost simultaneously with the allied armies of occupation. China is still the principal sourco for Germany's hair importation, which is shipped chiefly from the heads of " sons of heaven," unci is sold there in all the colours which are "in vogue." The other principal hair exporter to Germany is Italy. Italian hair is valued even more highly than Chinese hair. The average braid of Italian hair, 28 inches long, is now sold in Germany at a retail price of 700 marks against 40 marks before the war. Another cause for complaint, is that tho production of hair nets, which are very popular among German women, is almost monopolised by Czecho-Slovakia, wherei more than 500,000 men. women and children earn their living by knitting them. The maximum production of one hair knitter is tSire© dozen nets daily.