Longer Hair

Southland Times, Issue 21100, 4 June 1930, Page 12

Longer Hair

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Every woman knows that individuality cannot be reached within the narrow precincts of mannish fashions; all men dress more or less alike, their hair is cut more or less alike; men show their individuality by other means, less obvious and less apparent. But women demand to look different from each other; no woman likes to dress or to look like another woman. Long hair helps her to emphasise her individuality.- This is why I forsee. that in less than two years' time women will go back to long hair and to their “chignon”; and every man will know that the woman he loves is really different from all others.