Flowers in the Hair.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

Flowers in the Hair.

Each season, it seems, styles are becoming more and more feminine (says a London writer). The return of the long skirt was, of course, originally responsible for this change from the old war-time vogue for severely plain and would-lbe “masculine styles,” and now the soft lines and graceful flares, and the increasingly elaborate trimmings that have accentuated the new cult of feminity. Accessories have necessarily become daintier and more frivolous. For now that the hair is worn longer and beautifully waved, there is scope for a host of new styles for the evening coiffures. And in these flowers play an important part, at least as far as the young girl in her teens or early twenties is concerned, for we have remembered how delightfully becoming they can be. Narrow wreaths, worn far back in the hair in the approved “halo” style, are making their appearance in increasing numbers at dances and dinner parties, and for these dainty chaplets real flowers or leaves are most often commissioned. A single flower worn at the side of the hair can also be exceedingly becoming, and the hair that is softly waved to one side looks very charming dressed in either of the styles. These fashions will look charming with a dainty frock of tulle or chiffon, but a more formal gown on the moulded classic lines demands a rather more sophisticated coiffure. “Sub-deb.” Parties.

The “sub-deb.” party has been adopted in London (states the Daily Mail). It has been popular for many years in the United States, where girls not yet “out” are known as sub-debu-tantes, and, for a few months before they make their formal debut, have (social gatherings given specially for them so that they may get to know each other and grow accustomed to entertaining. The first sub-deb. party in 'London took place at Grosvenor House, 'Park Lane, recently, when some notable 'London hostesses took their young people to dine and dance, and, at midnight, to see a film of the Rugby football match between Oxford and Cambridge. The Marchioness of Crewe was among them, accompanied by her 16-year-old daughter, Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, and the Marchioness of Lansdowne took 'with her Lady Kitty Fitzmaurice, a debutante of last year.

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