HIGH PRICES FOR FALSE HAIR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 8

HIGH PRICES FOR FALSE HAIR.

A GREAT DEMAND. So great is the demand for human hair in Great Britain that there is a shoitago in tho supply. The enormous quantities which have been imported in recent years have brought about a scarcity at the source, and it is increasingly difficult to get good, long, fine hair.

' "About 500,0001b. of human hair are imported into England from Europe yearly, and 1,000,0001b. from China," said a representative of Messrs. H. Serventi, the hair merchants, to a "Daily Mail" representative, "at prices ranging from 30s. to £50 per pound for oidinary colours. For puro white hair, for which there is a great demand, I got a few days ago 12os. an ounce, or £100 a pound. "Tho best white hair comes from the south of Franco, Italy, and Bohemia. There is a great demand for it for wigs, toupes, and tralieformations for old men and women, who like to have a moro luxuriant crop of silver hair than nature lias allowed them. All tho fine jiair is European. That from China is very coarse."

"The perfection with which wigs are now made," said Messrs. Clarkson, the costumiers," accounts for the tremendous increase in the use of false hair. "It seems as if vanity among old men were increasing, for the number who wear beautiful silvery locks of other people's hair is growing. Elderly women (b not aim at golden hair so much, but roecgniso that thero is nothing so becoming a? r«Hv genuine beautiful whito iiair."