SWATHED COIFFURES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1940, Page 8

SWATHED COIFFURES

NEAT AND TIDY. Women in uniform have already solved the problem of hairdressing by demonstrating suitable ways to trim the hair for service caps and how to introduce feminine top-knot charm even if hair is cut shorter about the nape, says a London writer. Characteristics of certain hats make for convention. “Cache peigne” fittings—some, by the way, appearing like abridged fish-net snoods —exact more or less abundant nape-like interest, but not so the broader and longer head grip. This serves to perch small hats forward from an upward swathed hairdressing movement, which adds dignity to carriage while at the same time outlining the turn of a pretty head.

Tendencies for these windswept swathes are developing and have different phases with Antoine, a famous hairdresser, who leaves hair sufficiently long so that movements can be brushed into position up centre back from one side to the other. Hair is tucked neatly under into line up centre back where fuller silhouettes are suggested for evening coiffures. Ends of both swept up and over movements are finished off in long soft rolls across the top before the peak, smaller rolls that become absorbed in a mass above Ihe brow, and, slanting ones at sides.

On the other hand. Graude, another specialist in coiffures, eliminates the centre V from windswept swathes and forms a curl at either side of the nape where the hair is so often unruly. He also sponsors front partings with slanting' side rolls that turn inward or outward according to type and profile. Rolls look supple. not stiff. and hair is well brushed up from temples in me grooming. This applies also to coiffures for girls between ages of 16 and 18 but deep waves are preferred to rolls and get tucked into place by little bows at one or either side of front partings.