Queens Inspire New Coiffures

Southland Times, Issue 22731, 6 November 1935, Page 5

Queens Inspire New Coiffures

FASHIONS IN HAIRDRESSING. Historians of fashion may have cause to note 1935 as a specially interesting phase of hair dressing. There is more individual treatment of hair and arrangement of curls to suit a hundred and one different types of faces and of hats than for many seasons. Two Queens, Alexandra and Mary Queen of Scots, have inspired from their pictures, two of the most popular hair dressing modes among the younger smart women.

Day and Evening. Chenille chignon nets, such as Queen Alexandra wore when she arrived in England as the bride of King Edward VII., then Prince of Wales, are to be worn both in the daytime under the new high toque-hats, and at night with stately brocade, velvet and thick satin dresses.

lii black and brown for daytime wear, and in pearl, gold and red for autumn dances and dinners, these are so far to be seen in the salons of a Park Lane hair expert only, who can hardly keep pace with the orders for chignons.

Women without a chignon of long hair are wearing them over their curls. The correct 1935 style is to wear the net half way back on the head, with the front curls or smooth wings of hair very neat and polished looking, and the ends of the net tucked in beneath the chignon or curls. Hats in the daytime are specially cut away at the back to reveal the nets, and front of the net should just show under the toque or tiny hat.

Instead of the chenille “bobbles” that decorated the front of chignon nets in Queen Alexandra’s day, the 1935 version for night is a tracery of pearl beads, or two little jewelled clips at either side, a ’couple of jewelled hum-ming-birds, or even a few ostrich feather tips. Neater Heads.

Women will find that these nets keep their curls in place during gales, and they have come partly in response to the liking for neater modes. The Mary Queen of Scots hair-dress-ing fashion is for the. younger women also. This consists in little flatfish curls half way back the head, when the hair is smoothly drawn out and then a flat mass of curls again, with a string of pearls for the evening looped over the curls in the characteristic way shown in the portraits of this queen. With the craze for historical hair fashions it is not surprising, that the platinum blonde hair tint is socially dead and done for. Women whose hair has been bleached are having the Titian red tint that is so becoming with browns, greens and tawny shades. For the brunette, whose hair may look “dead” against very dark colours, especially in velvet, a hair specialist has a copper tint to give a gleaming, burnished look.