SHINGLED HEADS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1924, Page 4

SHINGLED HEADS.

BACK IX SYDNEY. SYDNEY. July 17. Sydney, like all oilier eominunitics. gets ail .-orts ol strange epidemics. Just, now there is an epidemic of flopped heads. In Sydney's ballrooms, at the epera aijd theatre, in liusino.-s houses and factories, shingled heads are everywhere to be seen. Fashion, whose edi' t.. women all the world over obey, decided that heads should lie shingled; and. In. with inexplicable and docile submission, practically every girl in Svdacv. who could aliord it, rmpped her head. 'lhe l::*!,hed head, has lost its vogue, ah hough. contia-ted with some of the shingled crowns I hat one sees about Sydicy's streets, it was a tiling of beauty. The prevalent notion that whatever i- fashionable is right, i- sometimes wrong, and it i- probable that before long Sydney, like l. uidon. will revolt against the shingled head, and no longer lay at the tee! ol the mysterious goddess Fashion, its offering of hair. The comment of one woman v. l iter in Sydney on tin* shorn tresses i- no*. Ilattering 'to some at least of tiai-e who have e'isi their locks. ‘Tic shingled crop.’* she -ays. “deline- the shape of the lead and the set of the nock and the shoulders. It is surprising that there ate so lew perleelly shaped head-, and that so many i.f our girls have such an iiulinished look about the neck and shoulders. Excessive slimness, for instance, is apt to produce a skinny neck tlial gives an iiuilcdgcd bird-like look to a girl. 'I h" different kind of shortness of hair that has taken the place of the bobbed hair i- anything hut pretty, and hair very short, at Hid hack oi the head has replace I the pretty .spring elfectcl t!irou«r!i tin* hair at ih«*

mipe of the neck and letting the hair from I he emu u project."