WEDDING HAIR-DRESSING IN FRANCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXV, 19 December 1896, Page 198

WEDDING HAIR-DRESSING IN FRANCE.

There is one stereotyped way of arranging wedding tresses in France (says a writer in the Inter Ocean). The hair-dresser crimps every lock of the bride’s hair with hot irons, then it is rolled away from the forehead over a high puff and arranged high on the forehead in rolls and coils that are wonderful to behold. But wearing one’s hair in one’s favourite old every-day way is considered by many in better taste. Dressed for her bridal, with her page and maid of honour, and her lovely robes falling around her, the bride is as a fairy princess. The fashionable hair-dressing is still back from the face, and this gives abundant opportunity for the high rearing of the veil and its loops and puffs. The social status of a bride is often determined directly by this veil, held as it is in front by a jewel, for upon this gem hangs the tale of fortune. If one immense stone, mounted showily, it means comfort. If a meek little cluster, it means not quite as much, and if a tiara it tells the story of a great heiress. There is a firm making lace veils, each one separate in pattern. None is ever repeated, and so the * rich old family lace ’ can be purchased with no trouble at all, without fear of seeing it duplicated. The ‘ veil of Eugenie’ is passing away, or t ihas been sold once too often, but there are lace designs that are so sheer that a spider’s web is coarse compared to them. Such a veil is used for a drapery upon a bodice front at the after receptions, then is put away for the after generations.