OCTOBER BRIDES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1926, Page 2

OCTOBER BRIDES

SHINGLED AND HASHING LED. HAIR. SYDNEY, Aug. .14. The women are getting all the limelight ill Sydney lately. Girls in Australia. Who Contemplate marriage within the ilext lew months will be well advised to fix the date of the Ceremony in October, for Farmer and Co,, one of Sydney’s biggest drapery establishments, in association with several of the other leading Sydney business firms, is organising wlnit is likely to prove a most interesting competition. The idea is to give to the most beautiful girl married during next October it handsome collection of valuable bridal gifts, which will he supplied by various firnns. It will be a princely dowry for "the lucky girl, and a nice stroke of fortune for her husband, especially if the couple 'do not happen to lx? over-blessed with worldly riches. It is understood that the competition will be open to girls throughout Australia. The most beautiful October bride may be found in the most un-looked-for place. Who knows ?

It is evident, from the vast army of beautiful women who have entered an unshingled girls’ competition, and whose photographs in the Press have revealed them in all the beauty and •glory of the old-fashioned long hair, tint, many of the women of Sydney have defied the new style. Hairdressers who practise bobbing and shingling in Sydney have been working at top speed. It will be interesting to see whether this competition, the many strikingly beautiful photographs that it has brought forth, and the interest that it has aroused, will have any detrimental effect on the trade. Apropos of this, Father Bridge, a parish priest of Katoomba, said in a recent sermon on “Vanity,” that he looked forward to the time when every wonun would wear an Eton crop. He sees nothing unbecoming about women who hob their hair.