THE PERMANENT WAVE
ANCIENT ROMAN HEADS
A woman journalist wandering among the sculptures and friezes in the British Museum has discovered that the permanent wave, which flourished so mightily in this decade of this century, nourished also in ancient Kome. and that there is nothing produced by electric, mechanical, and gently oily touches of the hair of the head today that was not done in ancient Rome and done more, states a writer in tht "Australian Worker." Every Roman head in the great lady class was rigidly waved or bunchily curled, and enclosed by what later centuries have known as the "chignon' — an atrocity, by the way, which is reported to be in fashion again, and which in its previous periods of preeminence often insanitarily saved the trouble of "doing up" the hair except occasionally—very occasionally. Among the great ladies of old Rome there does not appear to have been anything so plebeian as natural waves or curls. The slaves were there in plenty to elaborate the artificiality, also the sculptors to preserve "the siyles for all time, also assuredly the beauty parlours with all the necessary (unnecessary) paraphernalia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1936, Page 8
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189THE PERMANENT WAVE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1936, Page 8
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