NURSERY COIFFURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 23

NURSERY COIFFURES

With the return to dainty and feminine clothes for grown-ups has come the inevitable change in hair- ' dressing, but even though fashions have changed for the nursery folk just as drastically as our own in the last few years, their coiffures still remain very simple. In our young days the glory of a little girl’s hair lay in its length and number of curls, but now a child with long hair is somewhat of a personage, and in nine cases out of ten it will be found that her mother has some good reason for letting it grow. Perhaps it is because of its colour, or because she cannot bring herself to cut off the natural curls. There are very few mothers who do not* want their little girls to have curly hair, but the majority of heads that in infancy are curly, produce lank hair as the child grows older. A wide brow is beautiful, especially in a child, and should not be hidden. A high forehead, however, is sometimes a noble promontory that is better covered. For this. a fairly thick fringe reaching almost to the eye-brows makes a becoming camouflage. For straight, dark hair the Botticelli cut should be chosen. This coiffure. with its straight fringe and point of hair on each cheek, resembles a mediaeval page boy, and is suited to little round faces. Children’s hair, like that of grownups, should be dressed always to suit the owner's face and not in any particular fashion. A double crown, though it is supposed to indicate cleverness, demands a long side parting, otherwise there is a loose lock of hair that is always waving in its wrong place. Another peculiarity is the ‘'cow lick.” so called because the hair looks as if some broad tongue had licked the hair off one side of the forehead. Hair that grows this way is tiresome to dress, although it usually accompanies a broad brow. The only style for this case is to brush the hair right back, keeping it in place with a narrow velvet ribbon tied round the head, or parting the hair the same side as the “lick” will answer sometimes.