The Revival of Whiskers.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5969, 14 August 1912, Page 4

The Revival of Whiskers.

A great ball was held at the Albert Hall in London last month at which tho costumes worn were of the 1812 period, the ball being the anniversary celebration of! the ball at Brussels the night before Waterloo. Tho men were n ttired in military uniforms and wore false 1 ' siae whiskers of the style fashionable 100 years ago. It was admitted, says a London newspaper, that the whiskers were exceedingly becoming. They gave the plainest of men on air of aristocratic distinction. As the result of this discovery, it is stated, there is ia strong probability that whiskers will again become fashionable. " Several Guardsmen," we aro told, "have consulted their coiffeurs regarding the length of seclusion necessary in order to emerge with full-blown whiskerettes." Photographs of gentlemen wearing the 1812 " whiskerettes " ar° being shown 'in the windows of the West End hairdressers, and Society, with .a capital S, seems to regard the tendency *vith benign approval. All this has boon as gall flod wormwood to Mr Frank Rich'ardsoD, a gentlemen who has devoted the best part of his life to the advocacy of the clean-shaven face. "I have read," he jsays in a letter addressed toithe Daily Express,' " with surprise end pain that there is a possibility of whiskers' coming into fashion again, owing to their alleged success at the. Albert Hall As the greatest living authority on tho whisker question in (England, I have no hesitation in stating that the recognised unhygienic properties of face fungus must prevent) the revival of whiskerettes, cheekwarmers, muttonchops, let-us-prays or am other form of microbe preserves." Whether Mr Richardson's faith is well-founded or not, time alone can tell.