STYLES ARE UNTIDY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 4

STYLES ARE UNTIDY

GLORY OF THE ’SEVENTIES Paris shops are full of hair-curlers and hairpfns of every sort and kind—a tribute to the upward trend of the hair and to the chignon which appectfed at the last Longchamp meeting in all the glory of the ’seventies, states an overseas writer. On the top of the chignon is a confection made of ribbon or feather, which merely crowns the work and can hardly be called a hat. It is sad to confess that hair at the moment is supremely untidy, and not all the net containers seem able to make it otherwise. The pageboy style flourishes. From the hack the effect can only be described as dwarfing. It takes away the neck, and as the hair has to be more or less stuck together it takes away any quality that, remains to it. The platinum blonde flourishes here and there

still, hut. she is beginning to look rather like the ultra-fair doll which delights the primitive mind. Instead are the heavy lumps of hair which constitute the page-boy and the chignon. They make the wearer look years older than she is.

Curls for the moment are confined to the older generation, which does not know what to do about it. The younger women combine the pageboy with curls rolled forward on the head, and balanced on the top of it all is something eccentric in the form of a hat. Heads look like guvs just now—perhaps appropriately. " They are no doubt a reaction against, the corrugations of the "perm.” But hair has still Hie appearance of being tortured into shape, and nobody seems to cultivate any longer its intrinsic quality.