ORIGINAL HATS CREATED BY POLITICAL CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 23664, 12 November 1938, Page 17

ORIGINAL HATS CREATED BY POLITICAL CRISIS

Two hats have appeared in London as a result of the political crisis. One, the Chamberlain hat, was a red felt trilby trimmed with three blue aeroplanes—to illustrate, I was told, the Premier’s three flights to Germany, writes a London correspondent.

The other, the Peace hat, was a small velvet toque with two white doves perched on the side. And hats bring us to hairdressing.

A recent competition organized in Paris attended by all the great, revealed two Parisian hairdressers’ distinct tendencies in winter hair styles. One was the accent on the brushedup coiffure, leaving the neck free and piling curls on top of the head or over the forehead.

This style, one of the hairdressers told a friend of mine, is peculiarly difficult to wear, although it has already been adopted by so many women.

For one thing, he said, it ages one. But, more important, most of our necks Cannot stand it. Our mothers, when their hair was done in this way, had not suffered clippers on the backs of their necks a few years previously. Their necks were soft and the short hair was soft, too, and often curled gently. But the short hair at the back of our necks has been cut and shaved so often that it is coarse and tends to hang in heavy strands and look untidy. The other tendency, which the hair dresser declared was much more suitable for present-day women, is to pile the hair lower down and to cover the nape of the neck partly with flat curls, grouped a little higher and closer to the head than last year. At the sides the hair can still be lifted up and the effect is still Edwardian.