MATINEE HAIRDRESSING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3050, 21 November 1908, Page 3

MATINEE HAIRDRESSING.

The unfortunate theatre-goer at , 'Home is discovering that there are j wo-se evils than the matinee hat, namely, the matinee coiffures patro nised by fashionable women this season, which have reached enormous proportions. A lady who was in the stalls at His Majesty's Theatre, London one Saturday afternoon recently, relates her experience. "Just in front of me," she said, "was a lady wearing a large hat of the matinee type. This she readily removed, only to leave -my view of the stage as completely •obscured as before, this time by her coiffure. By means of an extended programme 1 measured her coiffure, U find that it was no less than seventeen inches across!" Complaints are many, but managers, who are zealous in thei •polite requests to lady- patrons tor [remove their hats, are powerless -m the matter of |,the arrangements of the hair underneath those hats. Coiffures which entail a 53in circumference, as in the case mentioned, are by no means exceptional this season in conjunction with the enormous ■hats. . "The hairdresser is obliged to =adapt th 3 day coiffuie to the prevailing style of millinery," said a •fashionable hairdresser. "The hair is dressed loosely in soft waves, very lull at the Fides and back, and parted in the middle. The space between the brim of the large hats and .the head has to be filled up by pinning bunches of curls to the coiffure."