TWO NEW BEAUTY PROBLEMS.

Shannon News, 23 July 1926, Page 4

TWO NEW BEAUTY PROBLEMS.

Modern fashions have created two new beauty problems for the women of this age, the thick ankle revealed by the ever shorter skirt, and the ugly line at the back of the neck brought about by the razor of the shingler. So long as poets could write coyly about feet like little mice peeping •from under petticoats, ankle beauty could be left to care for itself. Defective ankles were merely hidden, and when the short skirt vogue made this discretion impracticable the beauty doctors promptly set to work on women’s ankles with reducing pastes and processes in which restrictive rubber bands and massaging played the principal part. Ugly backs of necks not, however, responded to the magic of beauty culture so readily. When hair was' coiled on the nape of the neck in the old-fashioned way, and little curling tendrils hovered there, no one thought oil so unobtrusive a feature as the back of the neck making or marring a woman’s appearance. Shingling brought it into, the full light of day, and, as with the ankles, many necks were found wanting. , The beauty specialists were able to help, but the next visit to the hairdresser invariably undid all they had done. The dressmaker, therefore, has stepped in, and is dealing with this ultra-modern problem on. her own lines. Why tulle should have been sold by the hundred thousand yards to swathe round the throats of women with boyish coiffures who affected the “garconne” type of dressing must have puzzled many people. The excessively feminine tulle, likewise the ropes of pearls that closely girdled the throat and fell in a heavy loop on the back of the neck were there to distract attention from the neck.line. Now comes the latest device of the dressmaker, the half pierrot ruffle of tulle, prettily frilled so that it stands smartly out at the sides and entirely hides the back of the neck. It appeared at a smart dress display in Paris recently, and is already being reproduced in- London. “World’s News.”