Will the Shingle Return?

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Will the Shingle Return?

Shorter Hair Among the Paris Fashion

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(•‘Dominion” Special Service: By Air-mail.J LONDON, March 3, ■Y FIERCE battle of hair styles is raging at present, and the Edwardian “upswept” coiffure is gradually losing ground. Although curls piled high on the top and framing the face are attractive to most people, the back > view has never been completely successful.

T7OR the coming season hair will once more be quite short at the back—; in Paris there is even tarlk of the shingle, returning—and will be easy to dress.

In front the curls will be taken high over the ears and arranged ou the top in small, soft ringlets, and at the •back the hair will be lifted from the nape of the neck and set in small, neat curls, or brushed sideways with little curls behind the ears. In any case, there will lie no more untidy wisps, and we shall be able to take our bats off without completely wrecking our appearances. Curls as Hat Trimmings. XTEW hair decorations, mounted on combs, are being designed iu shining metal and diamante to nestle amid the curls. Ornaments in the form of bows and feathers seem the most popular, but one of the most; attractive styles seen was on ar blonde girl whose hair was studded with little black velvet stars, a new and very charming idea.

Curls are also being used to trim bats, and Schiaparelli has designed a most attractive tricorne in black felt which is warn tilted right over the

revealing two curls of the wearer’s hair which are pulled through the eyes of the mask. Another model in this house is a big forehead and is held by a black velvet mask covering the back of the head and turued-up black felt with a slit in the middle of it, through which a stray curl is pulled. It is particularly charming for a- blonde wearer. Coloured Gloves. Q.LOVES have always played an important part in a woman’s wardrobe, but today they are available in the most surprising number of colours and styles. Even the fabric ones, which we considered beneath our notice a short while ago, are now very smart, and this winter many a fashionable hand has been clad in coloured or black velvet gloves with kid palms, often with attractive little velvet muffs or muff-bags to match. Colour contrasts, such as wine-red gloves with a navy-blue suit; clover with black, .mustard with brown and dark green with; tan are most popular.

But now that gloves are so much to the fore it is essential that they fit without a crease, and all good gloves should be hand-sewn.