THE YOKEL FRINGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE YOKEL FRINGE.

AND THE LOUIS QUINZE HAT. HAIR A LITTLE LONGER. Hair has perhaps grown a little longer in Paris. At least much more of it shows under the bowler and the Louis Quinze hat, writes an authority. This is so much the caso that where the hat is tilted over to one side there is often a velvet band gripping the curled hair to make quite sure that it stays in place. Until now, however, there has been no very distinctively new note in the matter of hair. At the dress collections this note has now been sounded. At first it looked like an accident. A very fashionably dressed woman appeared with a fringe that had not been seen. She was so correctly dressed in other respects that the fringe could not be taken for an accident. It was combed down over her forehead and combed forward from the ears. It had been carefully tapered and, instead of the hair making an even effect, it looked almost stuck apart in little pieces, as though a yokel had tried to arrange his fringe or a Cockney his quiff with no manner of success. . . , Sometimes the yokel fringe extends right down to the ears. Sometimes it only

decorates the forehead. So that there may be no mistake about it, it is stuck down, lest the wind disorder its disorder. It is quite true that it gives a vacant suggestion, even, perhaps, an open mouth. But it is so deliberate, and a great many highly intelligent people have enjoyed concealing their wits under a foolish expression, that there is perhaps more reason in it than would at first sight appear. At least the yokel fringe attracted a good deal of attention, even more than the white hair, black marquise hat, rouge and patch of another aspirant to striking hair-dressing.