NORSE SHINGLING
ANCIENT FASHION. In recent years many people have claimed to he the inventor of the shingle, hut no one has been able to establish an indisputahle title, and it is possible that no one ever will. Welsh women hob-bed their hair 700 years ago, and ;there are older records even than that of close-cropped feminine fashions. A few years ago archaeological excavations near Tilsit, in East Prussia, brought to light remains in the Viking civilisation which revealed that many a Norse maiden wore her luxurious golden hair clipped short. Thus more than 1000 years ago shingling was a fashion among women, while tho mode for "men was flowing locks.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 613, 18 August 1933, Page 3
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111NORSE SHINGLING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 613, 18 August 1933, Page 3
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