Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 20

Feminine Interests

Exit Miss Eton Crop

The Bun Returns to Favour

“Can you do something to make my hair look younger?” wailed the lady in the next cubicle to mine at the hairdresser’s this week (writes “Morestina”). “I could not hear the soothing answer of the attendant, but I saw her client later looking a different being from the hard-faced, Etoncropped girl of an hour earlier. The hairdresser had pinned a little bunch of baby curls over each ear, loosened a lock or two of severely brushedback hair on her brow, and behold, a sweet, feminine face looked at its owner through the mirror. What a difference a few tendrils of hair make to the face! Very few of us, to be quite honest, can afford to dispense with our halo, and with flowing frocks and drooping brims, it is absolutely essential for us to disguise our shorn heads. For some time past I hawe noticed a steady return to longer hair, and there is no question that the Eton crop is demode now, that is, among the best-dressed women. So far those of us who are patiently waiting for locks to grow, the hairdressers are designing artful little bunches of curls to hide ragged ends. It is the fashion just now, and a very pretty one, I think, to wear the hair gathered loosely over the ears into a bunch of ringlets in the nape of the neck. This style looks very well in the ballroom.

The asymmetrical vogue has extended to our heads. I saw a girl dancing the other night with her red hair curled behind her left ear, and the other side bunched out to hide the right ear. From the exposed ear dangled a long ear-ring, but the hidden one was guiltless of ornament. Then another girl I saw the same evening had a rather ordinary-looking shingle, but the side opposite the parting ended in a neat litle coil exactly like a snail shell. Obviously she had allowed a lock of hair that side to grow longer than the rest. The snail-shell coiffure is, in fact, quite the newest idea. The hair is combed low on the brow, the hairdresser training the waves in an everwidening circle which has its beginning on the top of the head. The wind-blown look, such as Anita Loos achieves, is still a favourite mode. The hair remains short at the back, but two carefully careless curls face each other on the brow. Another compromise for Miss Eton Crop is to train her hair in front into a straight fringe reaching to her plucked brows. The “bun” is steadily recovering lost ground. I have seen quite a number of smart women with one. Of course, it’s only the ghost of its former self, and fits so neatly in the neck that the shingle silhouette remains.