HEAD TORTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 107, 9 May 1933, Page 2

HEAD TORTURE

Englishwomen spend far more time and money on their hair now than ever before (states a writer). .Whether short or long, a woman’s hair is usually her best feature. Japanese women arc famous for blue-black hair, as sheeny as tho raven’s wing; but they torture their heads to keep it in position. As their custom is to dress coiffures about twice a week only, to prevent the elaborate dressing becoming disarranged they slep with their heads resting upon hard, wooden pillows, hollowed to fit their heads. Dainty Mousmes oil their hair, pile it high, and decorate with gay fans and quaint prongs. Zulu ladies regard their clothing as of a second importance to their hair, which they painstakingly twist into weird corkscrew curls, which they wax or clay to the head, and then make to lie in a low fringe over the eyes and at the back of the neck. Bono charms and rings are then made to adhere to the sticky mess. Rhodesians shave their heads to coax the hair into order, and other African girls torture their hair into plaits, and, with infinite care, make tight, complicated designs with it.