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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 8 May 1869, Page 3

Chignons Doomed. — Ttie " Sport," a Paris journal announces that the great ladies of the French capital have determined i o abolish chignons. " The character of head-dress," it says,. " is to undergo an important reform ; the command has gone forth that false hair and wigs must be repudiated." \ And not only so, but ladies are always to appear as if they dressed their own hair, for " when the work of a professional is manifest on their heads, prestige ceases. In the daytime the hair is to be simply plated, and confined in a not — in other words, instead of assuming 3. pyramidal form it is to have a tendency to fall like that of -In tVe evening it will only be neces^ayyfo pu^pn'the head a crown, or a wreath of roses* or ivy, or of some creeping plant.