PINK HAIR

Southland Times, Issue 23380, 11 December 1937, Page 16

PINK HAIR

Pink hair is the latest fashion news from Vienna.

A leading Vienna hairdresser, who has dressed the Duchess of Windsor’s hair, considers that a “tender rose” is an ideal shade for women’s hair. “You mean pink hair?” he was asked.

The hairdresser thumbed through a small German dictionary for a word “pink.” Then he looked up brightly and answered “Ja ja.” Pink hair, he said, is perfect for evening “because women in the evening should always be flower-like.” The tender rose shade, he added, looks fresh and friendly in the daytime, with dark street clothes. Asked if men would like it, he nodded grimly, “They will,” he said. Women should change their style of hairdressing or at least vary its lines 10 or 12 times a year, he went on, because many men are completely sick of the way their wives do their hair. Our worst error in hairdressing is to copy film stars “and try at 36 to look like Ginger Rogers.” As for the “page-boy” coiffure, he considers it to be the most unflattering style conceived in two decades. “The trouble is it makes most women look broad,” he said.