YOUNG MEN GROW BEARDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 12

YOUNG MEN GROW BEARDS.

Young manhood in Paris is annoyed at young womanhood, not only for adopting most of liis garments and haircut, but also for looking more amusing in them than he does himself (says the Manchester Guardian). He has retaliated by adopting hips and a waist and a certain fullness about the divided skirt. Young womanhood, however, does not mind in the least, for it is of these things that she has tired. Three or four years ago there might be seen in the Latin Quarter a stray young man or so who was really a short-haired girl. For the Latin Quarter this was considered suitable. But now that young women go to the theatre in trousers and dinner jacket, now that they play Rugby in shorts in the heart of Paris, now that they have their “ complete”—in other words their male suits —cut to make them look like “petits maitres,” there seems nothing left for the young man to do. Oddly enough, the solution of the difficulty has come not from Paris, the source of ideas, but from America. At a well-known college all the young women took to dressing like young men to such an extent that it was difficult to tell the difference. They adopted tweeds without any of the feminine touches which usually mark such efforts. They deprived the young man of all his best boyish effects by producing them even more attractively. So the young men took counsel How could they differentiate themselves and what means was there which would not immediately bo copied by omnivorous femininity. The great idea is always simple. Young manhood decided in a body to grow beards. It may be that file next generation will have beards either diplomatic or patriarchal, that the “moustache gauloise” will not only be confined to the French, that whiskers may be again tied under the young man’s chin by the beloved, and that that “male air" so beloved of the French will again 'he achieved by means that arc entirely hirsute.