BOBBED HAIR DOOMED.

Shannon News, 12 April 1927, Page 2

BOBBED HAIR DOOMED.

LONG TRESSES NEXT. , M. MARCEL'S VIEW. "-The next fashion, for women's heads will be long hair. " This is the view of M. Marcel, who arrived in London last month from Paris, on his way to Manchester for the Hairdressers' Exhibition. "How long will it be before long hair comes in fashion again?" asked a newspaper representative. M. Marcel hesitated a moment. "I do not know, exactly," he said, "but it is bound to come- I think within ten years. " A crowd of bobbed-hair students who had gathered to welcome him at a hairdressing sehool in London took courage at this. They had been warned in time. In ten years one can grow quite a lot of hair. M. Marcel is an elderly Frenchman of benevolent aspect, with only a fringe of white hair himself, and a unowy moustache and beard. "English women," he said with a smile at the waved and cropped women, "are more chic than French women. But.Freneh women are more droll. "Short hair came in with tho open touring car. It goes weli with that. Modern life is certainly one of the -reasons for short hair." M. Marcel owes his invention and his fame to his mother. "When I was twenty," he said, "in 1872, I noticed how naturally beautiful my mother's wavy hair was. 'lf hairdressers could only reproduce those waves,' I said, 'what a splendid thing it would be -' — r -n ""I set to work to try. I used a sort of curling-iron with which men's hair was curled, but instead of using it as on men's hair, I used it upsidedown. I tad discovered the secret of it I had reproduced the natural wave, and the natural wave is the idea of.