WHISKERS COMING BACK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)

WHISKERS COMING BACK.

FASHION IN ENGLAND.

VIEWS OF YOUNG WOMEN.

Sad nswS to-day awaits the girls of England, says a "London paper. Male whiskeni aro coming back into fashion. Not those attenuated side-pieces which have lately been undergoing an eclipse but full, vigorous, unashamed'beards. Young womqn who have recently noticed an inclination on the part of their boy friends to shun their company may depend on it that they are nurturing the first tender growths. " I cannot understand it," & wellknown .London hairdresser told an inter* viewer lately, " but it is a fact that beards, so long despised, are coming back into fashion again. " A few weeks ago the man who came into this establishment to have their boards trimmed were all elderly. It was very rarely that we got a young man, unless he was an artist or a Bohemian. Now we get young men with beards almost every day. Nobody seeqas to know who set the fashion. It has just happened. . " The most popular type of beard is one with a sharp point, closely trimmed to the skin, but a young man came m here the other day with a beard like a Women are not likely to take kindly to the new innovation. Asked what she thought about it a modern young miss tossed her head and sniffed " I wouldn't speak to a man with a beard," she said defiantly. The mystery is where men go to grow their beards.' Nobody <?ver seems'Jo see the