RED HEADED GIRLS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3138, 19 July 1881, Page 4

RED HEADED GIRLS.

A lady correspondent who ought to know writes from New York to Bay that red headed girls are all the rage. Those who have fiery heads by nature now account themselves lucky. Lemon blondes have lost their grip, and black heads join them in envying the reds. Red hair is attainable, but with considerable trouble, for bleaching must be followed by dyeing, and the process requires frequent repetition. Moreover the peculiar complexion that usually accompanies red hair cannot be simulated. It has a clear, pallid hue for a groundwork (and this might by itself be counterfeited) but on it appear pale, reddish freckles, and to paint them in would be too delicate an operation to undertake Red hair is becoming common 011 the street and in public assemblages, but the real is so easily distinguished from the false that the fashion is not, likely to last long. In the matter of hairdressing, while it is no longer correct to wear the hair high on the head and in voluminous puffs, braids and frizzes, as was fashionable only a year ago, it is nevertheless evident that the close flat style of coiffure is ■ going out of date. Curls and loops are added from week fco week, and gradually we are returning to the elaborate style of hairdressing, which is really the only one suitable for the complicated details of the general toilet of to-day. When done in red hair the fussiness is effeclive. Women with red hair are called ' rossas.' When attired with taste, they are bewitching—if they have fine complexions, good features, animated and intelligent countences, and eyes blue, grey, dark brown or bronzetinted ; they should dress in either very dark or very light colours. Greys, drabs, Yellows, bright blue, bright green, mauve, lilac, and rose do not become them. They may wisely wear black, dark blue, dark violet, pearl and cream white, water blue and the palest tint of Nile green.