THE HAIRDRESSER’S LATEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 253, 16 January 1928, Page 5

THE HAIRDRESSER’S LATEST

CURLS BANISH CROPS By VERA MERRELL During a chat with a well-known hairdresser. I learnt the other aftersome interesting facts concernsjg modes of to-day. It would seem that there is a definite tendency at the moment for simple, convenient styles during the daytime, Ihingled heads being sleekly-arranged With a parting. The parting may be «,t the right, or left side, according to Mhich is most becoming, but a parting t ier® must be, and it must be a side Pl ?he Eton crop is considered entirely an out-of-date mode. Just as straight fair is out-of-date, so tight waves are taboo. Loose, soft waves are im•arted oy the permanent method, and Ely the new hair near the roots, is treated as the waves grow out. Slides and Boucles Minute tortoiseshell slides prove useful during the day, to keep the loose waves in place, and to train the ends of the side pieces toward the back of the head. Rut, in the evening. the order ehanges. The hairdresser used all his skill to create something elaborate and Artistic. To begin with, the smart woman is tired of appearing like a man at the back of her head; so she has the front of her hair waved, and has allowed

it to grow just long enough to comb backwards across the ears, with just the lobes peeping out. Then, all the back portion of her hair Is made into a mass of curly ends, tidily following the shingle line. This Is a charming vogue, neat and yet very feminine, but, alas not easy to acquire by those whose hair is still very short. I hear that the chic Parisienne Is seriously growing her hair to achieve the fascinating, curly neck-line, and, in the meantime, she is wearing a boucle across the back of her head, consisting of these curling ends. It is a satisfactory arrangement. The boucle is attached on either side by means of tiny clasps and her hair is waved into it. The Not-So-Young The older woman is not forgotten. Instead of having her hair dyed, she sometimes wears a shingle wig of just the colour her hair used to be. All these wigs are made to wave back from the sides. After a gentle combing the wig looks bright, and is always neat and attractive. One’s own hair has to be cut, and that is all. Every shade imaginable is seen in these wigs, except red hair. There is no taste, just now, for changing the colour of the hair; the hairdresser may advise brightening the hair, but the ideal is to reproduce the natural, original colour of the customer’s hair.

For the woman whose hair is becoming thin on top, transformations are fashioned. They cover the top of the head with a narrow strip of hair to pass across the end of the owner’s shingle, to keep it in place. The ends of the transformation comb naturally Into the owner’s cut tresses.