CRAY HAIR FASHIONABLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XVII, 24 April 1897, Page 524

CRAY HAIR FASHIONABLE.

* Silver threads among the gold ’ la the latest fad among young women who wish to appear intellectual and thoughtful. Wig makers will deny it, but the fact remains that there is an alarming prevalence of girls with gray hair on their temples. From time immemorial it has been the habit of the fair sex to weed out the gray hairs carefully from their heads. One swallow cannot make a spring, but it is a well knosrn fact that ten gray hairs will make a year’s difference in a woman's age. This is why in former times they pulled them out so carefully. Times have changed, however, and it is the fashion just now to appear very metaphysical and very philosophical, and with jnst a dash of the * ologies ’ thrown in. It certainly gives a young woman an air something above the average giggling and gum chewing matinee girl. If you want to stimulate the proper thing just go to a wig maker’s and give him a small wisp of yonr hair, with instructions to match it in a shade of grey in a small toupee affair, to be worn after the fashion of false bangs. Then train the gray hairs carefully through your own locks, and there you are. Take a walk down Fifth avenne to-day and see the streams of gray headed girls coming from church, and still not one of them, unless convicted by indubitable evidence, will confess to over eighteen.