CHINESE WOMEN ADOPT ETON CROP.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 15

CHINESE WOMEN ADOPT ETON CROP.

‘‘l am going to take a permanent waying machine back to China with me, said Miss Qui Sing Wong, the young Chinese woman who is studying hairdressing in London, in a talk on the customs of her country, which she gave from the 8.8. C. studio. Miss Qui Sing Wong is the first Chinese woman to broadcast. “A year or two ago there was not a bobbed head in China,” she said, “Now Very many girls are Eton cropped. ‘‘After my year’s training, which began a week ago, I shall return to China and open a beauty culture and hairdressing establishment in Hong Kong. “Most of my customers will be members of the British colony and Chinese girls under 20, for women over that age have been brought up in the old way, and are too attached to the gold and jewelled pins with which they arrange their hair ever to have it cut. “These pins are put in so as to arrange a fan above the bun at the back of the head. Sometimes when I look at my own pins I could cry, but I do not regret having had by hair cut, either on fashion or hygienic grounds.” Miss Qui Sing Wong said that ail the Chinese men students in London liked to see their Chinese women comrades with short hair, and would, when they returned to China, spread an appreciation of the innovation. . A . “It is a great improvement to have the hair waved ” Miss Qui Sing Wong added, “and Chinese women who have hitherto worn their hair sleek and short look charming with it curled. “At present the only means of waving in China are old-fashioned pins and curlpapers.”