NEW FASHIONS OF DRESSING THE HAIR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5454, 4 January 1896, Page 3

NEW FASHIONS OF DRESSING THE HAIR.

COMBS ARE TO BE WORN.

(N«u> Tbrfc Sun.)

The women who have been fond : of dressing their hair with feathers and aigrettes will have to give them up this winter or be hoplessly out of date, for the feathers must go. Combs of all sizes and shapes are the correct head ornaments, so the fashionable jewellers and hairdressers say, and they come in endless variety so far as material and design are concerned. There seems to be a different way of arranging the hair for every face, and yet all are stylish. The woman with dark glistening locks must wear her hair in the evening after the style of the Empress Josephine, if she has the face to stand it, and the diamond and pearl tiara which gives the finishing touch to this very pretty arrangement .of her. looks. If she cannot 1 afford the latter, two of three strands of imitation pearls look well wound in and out among the dark puffs. Dark hair does not look well too much frizzled. Crimping causes it to lose itß lustre, which is brought out by light ornaments. On the other hand, the woman with yellow or reddish hair should wave it oh all sides and puff it up high in a fluffy mass. Medium-sized tortoise-shell combs ornamented with applied silver are' more popular than anything else just now, but they really show off better. in light. hair than a'ay other. Black garnet and mat jet combs and hairpins are being imported from Paris and are already very popular. Many of them come in crescent and butterfly shapes, and are.thickly studded with rhine Btones. The side combs match, and the effect of these novelties in blonde hair is gorgeous and striking. The silversmiths report a run on the enamelled and jewelled bodies of butterflies. These ornaments have an arrangement at the back which permits of ribbon wings of the colour of the gown. The demure, maid, who clings to her crimpless parting and coils her hair very high on her head may thrust one of these butterflies in at the back of the parting and. so relieve its severity. She may even go further- and fill her .hair with very sjaall cnamelied and j-iweUed bi.it m£i\lj and flower- pins, and so obtain an effect altogether Japanese. Pew women can afford to dress their hair low on their necks, even with the aid of crimravul puff 0, but those who do must

not fail to set off the knot vnth an immense tortoise-shell back comb curving almost from ear to ear, if they wish to be in the very latest style

When a hairdresser was asked how elderly women should dress and ornament their hair, she replied: " Well, everybody is going to wear her hair pompadour this winter, and there is such variety in the arrangement of this style that it can be made just as becoming to the woman with a long, lank face and cadaverous eyes as to the one with a round face. But when the crow's feet begin to scratch around a woman's eyes and the ctirves in. her face begin to settle into lines, slje should be . very careful in .the -arrangement of her hair ani .the selection of ornaments* . She should not fail to pull soft little curls down on her forehead, and unless she is. remarkably welT preserved, must not' wear brilliant ornaments. Medium-sized combs in tortoise or jet are becoming, but pearls never in grayor white hair; and. as for. the beloved diamonds, they bring out the wrinkles."