ARE THE GIRLS GOING TO LET THEIR HAIR GROW?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 9

ARE THE GIRLS GOING TO LET THEIR HAIR GROW?

FEW HAIRDRESSERS AGREE WITH PROPHECY OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL

“If you don’t begin to let your hair grow quickly, you will all be out of fashion in six months’ time.”

This statement by the GovernorGeneral, Sir Charles Fergusson, to the pupils of Wellington Girls’ College, is one about which ladies are likely to take particular note. For fhe purpose of finding out whether it was a comment on a trend already definitely established, or merely a Vice-Regal prophecy, a reporter made inquiries this morning among some of the leading hairdressers in Christchurch.

He was met by a most confusing divergence of opinion. The first place visited was an establishment where hairdressing is done for both sexes. Here the suggestion that women were returning to long hair was declared to be entirely wrong. “They are wearing it shorter to-day than they were a few months back,” the reporter was told.

“There is not the slightest indication of a return to long hair. In the winter many women permitted their hair to longer, but now that the warm weather has returned they are keeping it short.”

The reporter’s informant added thaj; he was occupied all day cutting women’s hair, and all his experience negatived any suggestion of a return to long hair.

At another establishment—a place that caters exclusively to a feminine clientiele—the reporter was told that the trend was towards long hair. Those Athletic Girls.

“The majority of women are letting their hair grow,” he was informed. “I don’t think it will last. The athletic girls—those who play tennis and swim —will not be bothered with long hair. Perhaps those who have nothing to do will let their hair remain long, but not the others.”

A verdict that was just the reverse of this was given by the manager of another place that caters for women only. He declared that there was iot the slightest indication that women were permitting their hair to grow long. He described the prevailing fashion as the “long buster.” Beyond that, however, the women were not going. In the face of these divergent verdicts, therefore, the woman who wants to be thoroughly in the fashion is faced with a perplexing problem. Personal inclination will have to be the deciding factor.