WILL O’ THE WISP MADAM?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 11

WILL O’ THE WISP MADAM?

“Will you Will o’ the Wisp, madam?” This question has the same significance as the “Will you cringle?” which hairdressers were asking their clients a few months ago (states the “Daily Mail”). It means that a new hairdressing fashion has arrived. The new style was introduced recently at a meeting of experts at Frascati’s Restaurant, Oxford Street, W. Five mannequins had their hair clipped and twisted into the halo of curls which is the basis of the “Will o' the Wisp,” and members of the Hairdressing Fashions Committee, which is sponsored by the official organisations of 10,000 British hairdressers, looked on in approval at their creation. The new style means a complete return to the feminine and with it hair ornaments will come back. The “Will o’ the Wisp” is described as a shingle with frills.

The hair is left 2in long at the back and curled up all round, with upcurled wisps at the side of the head. There is a side parting and a large wave from the tip of the ear to the top of the head. In addition, the forehead is veiled with curled wisps, so that the entire read is framed in curls. The creators say that the new fashion will suit all types of women and all ages and will retain greater softness than previous fashions. Older women will find that it treats an ugly neckline kindly, disguising its bad points. ROYAL LONGEVITY. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the eldest of the three surviving children of Queen Victoria, was 85 in March last, having been born on March 18, 1848 (states a writer in the London “Daily Mail”).

It is 62 years since her marriage to John Campbell, Marquis of Lome, as her husband was on March 21, 1874. No King or Queen of England has ever reached the age of the duchess, or of her one surviving brother, the Duke of Connaught, now nearly 83. The oldest English Sovereign was her mother, Queen Victoria, aged 81 years and 243 days, and the oldest King was her great grandfather, George 111., aged 81 years 239 days. No others were octogenarians, and from Egbert down to George 11., who was 77, there was not a single septuagenarian king for over 900 years. But exile seems to have been more conducive to longevity than the responsibilities of sovereignty. “James the Third,” the old Pretender, was 78, and his second son, “Henry the Ninth,” who became a cardinal bishop instead of a king, died on July 13, 1807, aged 82 years and 129 days. DANCING—ENGLISH STYLE.

While London is importing its newest dance steps from South America, the English style of waltzing and dancing the tango is being adopted in Vienna, where the rumba is already fairly dead. Some foreigners complain of the languid dignity of dancers tne West End, put apparently it is that quality in English dancing which appeals to the Viennese as a relief from the emphatic style employed by many young Austrians on the dance floor.