NEW TYRANNY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 63, 5 November 1931, Page 5

NEW TYRANNY

MISS LEROY WRITES ON FASHION'S LATEST REQUIREMENT. Herb is a letter fr.om Miss Leroy. She has been exchanging ideas with a holiday-making friend in the Tyro'l, who tells us about the new tyranny in hairdressing. VIENNA, Oct. 3. "It's such a struggle these times to find new wrinkles in old Don mots, for there's simply nothing new under the sun, is there? What a struggle of words there's over our hair and skirts, a positive battle hetween the Shorts and the Longs — like those noises one hears when mareonigrams fly into the headphones. Which brings me to what f mean: Guy and I went to the dansant yesterday, and half way through the programme, Gracie Muirhead came in. She'd returned only that morning from six weeks in the Tyrol, and while talking to her, I couldn't help thinking that with longer skirts and tip-tilted hats, courturier'es and milliners are in league with the hairdressers to make us lengthen our hair — if only a little. The newest style, shoulder length, certainly is f eminine, so what would you? Gracie certainly has chic, as well as generosity with ideas, which cost her some guineas at Salons. I had the thought that even with (to many) the difficulty of wearing the new tip-tilted hats, she had not lost any of her customary chil — and then I remarked the charming way in which her hair was dressed. Gracie, as I have said, is not one of those people who never impart their toilet secrets, so I am able to tell you just how this delightful effect is aecomplished with the new idea _jn one's locks. Shoulder length is suitable to both young girls and older women, whether one parts it on the' right, left or centre. Once the parting is straightened, comb the hair down at the sides, then divide the hair in half at the baelt, regardless of where the parting falls in the front. After you've arranged the hair at the sides and pulled it neatly back, use a hair clip to hold the hair in the position so that they will be smoothed when finally pinned into place. It that quite clear? Then you take one half of the back hair in each hand, twist it loosely once or twiee, cross the left side to the right, and the right to the left. Pull the hair in the right hand taut for a moment and release the hair held in the left hand so that j another pin may be inserted where the i two strands across. Sometimes it is | neeessary to have several pins here, but they may be removed when the ends of the hair are fixed. Try it, m'dear. I suppose we do frequently bow the knee to the Fashion tyrants, but they do bring change to their suffering subjeet, don't they?" Cheerily,