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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 October 1910, Page 69

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MARGUERITE.

6T"FRE we to have a drastic altera- > I tion of our coiffure styles again? J I That is the burning question just now when the talk veers round to woman's crowning glory. As a resnlt of all the “guessful” assertions on the subject I have heard lately, I have paid some visits to two or three of those wonderful men whose whole thoughts and fortunes are bound up in the shining coils of la grande Dame’s coiffure. It appears that we have no immediate need to fear that, having now gotten our tresses to smooth and subdue themselves to the needs of the “turban” style, we shall have to waste all this discipline in altered modes. The most that seems possible—Mad this my informant considered a rash prophecy—is that our hair may have to be worn somewhat lower in the neek. Whether this is a modest desire of Dame Fashion to hide with Eve's veil some of the unadorned beauty which the low necks of the coming season will expose, I eannot say, but it is rarely that stern monitress considers much either our modesty or our comfort. Frenchwomen are wearing the quaintest of evening coiffures, which take all manner of different guises. There is the Dutch cap coiffure, carried out in laee like the peasant headdress of the land of dykes and canals. Then there is the silk handkerchief tied in a loop on the left side just on the neck below the ear, with tiny curls creeping out from under it round the brow, the silk standing out by a cunning arrangement of stiffening on either side of the face. Some Parisiennes, too, have clouds of tulle softly wound round the head, with a large barbaric jewel gleaming over the forehead, and this is, perhaps, the most striking of all.