THE "MINGLE"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1932, Page 11

THE "MINGLE"

NEW BRITISH FASHION

In reference to the recent, cable news that Biitish hairdicssers have been trying to-evoTviTa new" stylo o£ coiffure for the coming season, "The Times" states that Hho birth of a new British fashion in hairdressing has been made Known. Tho Hairdressers' General Committee, "which speaks for 10,000 British members of the craft, has been encouraged b£ national successes at the recent hairdressing exhibition in Paris—the principal trophy went to a London competitor— to defy the tradition' of -bowing 'to -Fiencll leadership in these matters.. A panel of exports was up to design the new coiffure, and after grave deliberations, to which milliners! and dressmakers wore admitted, has approved the stylo which was on view at tho Frascati Eestaurant, oathe^heads of three living models The occasion was so important that the last caieful touches "were put to one o\-hibit y the chairman of the Geneial Committee itf person. Tho three heads weio similarly dressed, with minor variations to show how adapt;

able tho new style is to either day or. evening occasions. A COMPROMISE. if the hairdressers have their way, tho fashion this winter will thercforo be the "mingle." It is, as tho name suggests, a eompromiso—a combination of loose waves on the Crown with tight curls at the sides and behind the ears, la: length.it 'Strikes'a" balance between the long curled style and the severe sliingle, and its distinguishing fcaturo i is a drastic tapering, particularly at I the nape of the neck; "Convenience, economy, practicability, and novelty" are a few of the virtues which its inventois claim. They point out that it is easily arranged and kept in order, so that professional aid. will not be needed daily. The interests of a. deserving trade,1 however, have not beori wholly forgotten by tho committee, for it decrees the curls to bo essential, though they are smaller and tighter than in the styles which tho "mingle" is meant to supersede. The curls deprue the tapered pait of that shorn effect which characterised tho shingle. To piovido for the upward tilt of present-day millinery the top hair must bo cut la six or seven inches in length and curlod, and a wave furrowed intermittently with1 the curls continues from tho fiont to "tho nape. At the-sides tho hair is cut to "chin level, graduating to about two inches' behind the ears, and, this hair also is curled. i