The Newest Millionaires

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 81, 27 June 1927, Page 12

The Newest Millionaires

Fortunes from Bobbing

Parisian hairdressers are rapidly becoming millionaires. Their rapid rise to fortune is the outcome of the bobbed hair fashion, which has 1 caused an increase in the nqmber of elaborately fitted hairdressing establishments reserved wholly for women from 20 in 1914 to more than 500 to-day. Fashionable hairdressing saloons are -being sold and resold at continually soaring prices, and it is said that some women’s hairdressing businesses have changed hands at as high a figure as £IOO.OOO.

Visiting hairdressers are becoming popular in London offices and warehouses.

City girls are busy people, so they have adopted the luncheon-hour “trim” of their bobbed or shingled heads as a means of saving time. Inquiries made by a “Daily Mail” reporter showed that there were at least several women earning a good living by touring the city at lunch-time. With the city’s lunch-hour lasting from noon to 3 p.m.—not all offices have the one o’clock to two o’clock rule—and enough women with half an hour to spare in the afternoon, the visiting hairdresser earns a good Jiving. At least she has no rents, rates or electric light bills to pay, and she can pass this benefit on to her customers by giving a good trim for as low as a shilling. In some cases a girl on the staff of a big business house trims the hair of. other girls employed in the building. Visiting hairdressers have, in fact, usually begun in this way.