LONG HAIR
TO HELP THE RIBBON TRADE. Spain, as we have already told, is begging its men to wear hats to help the hat trade. Now Germany is trying to persuade girls to grow plaits in order to help the ribbon trade. Nearly a thousand schools for girls are displaying posters of young Gretchens with long plaits and big bows of ribbon most decoratively arranged. What next, we wonder? says the Children's Newspaper. Will our Government start reviving the Crinoline Age to irelp the hoop trade? Must our dead lie in woollen shrouds again to help the sheep farmers? Will Mussolini order all bath tube to be made of marble to encourage the Carrara quarrymen? There is no end to what might be done in this way. All the black, brown and blue shirts might be changed to stiff white ones to give more work to laundries; it might be made illegal to borrow books, and so increase their sale. But there is always the other side of the picture. What about the hairdressers, who find that their work has trebled since Gretchen cut her hair short and is always needing a trim or a wave? It is all very difficult.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3479, 14 June 1934, Page 6
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