HAIR DRESSING OF JAPANESE LADIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1508, 13 October 1883, Page 4

HAIR DRESSING OF JAPANESE LADIES.

The following details with regard to the hair dressing of Japanese ladies may be of interest in these days, and may help to elucidate much of the mystery which always surrounds the meaning of a Japanese picture. In Japan a girl at the age of nine wears her hair tied up in a red scarf bound round the back of her head, the forehead is left bare, with tho exception of of a couple of locks, one on each side When she is of a marriageable age she combs her hair forward and makes it up into the shape of a fan or butterfly, and at the same time decorates it with silver cord and balls of varied colors. This means everything, and is fully understood by the young men of Japan. A widow who wishes for a second husband puis a tortoise shell pin horizontally at the back of her head and twists her hair round it, while an inconsolable widow cuts her hair short and has no adornment of any sort. By these simple means much confusion is avoided. A glance round a ball room Mifiiccs to tell tho age and status of every lady in the place, and a good deal might be said for the introduction of such a custom into this con ntry,