WHISKERS COMING BACK.

Shannon News, 20 December 1929, Page 3

WHISKERS COMING BACK.

ITS FASHION IN ENGLAND.

Sad news to-day awaits the girls o£ England, says a London paper. Male whiskers are coming back into fashion. .; : Not those attenuated side-pieces which ' have lately been undergoing an eclipse but full, vigorous, unashamed beards. Yoi!ng women who have recently noticed an inclination on the part of their boy friends to shun their company may depend on it that they are nurturing the first tender growths. "I cannot understand it,", a wellknown London hairdresser told an interviewer lately, but it is a fact that beards, so long despised, are coming 'back into fashion again. '"A few weeks ago the men who came into this establishment to have their beards trimmed were all elderly. It was very rarely that we got a young man, unless he was an artist or a Bohemian. Now we get young men wita beards almost every day. ... Nobody seems to know who set the fashion. It has just happened. "The most popular type of beard is one with a sharp point, closely trimmed to the skin, but a young man came in here the other day with a beard like a hatchet."

Women are not likely to take kindly to the new innovation. Asked what she thought about it a modern .young. miss tossed Ker head and sniffed scorn- ; fully. "I wouldn't speak to a man •with a beard," she said defiantly.

The mystery is where men go to grow ■ their beards. Nobody ever seems to see the thing in embryo.