The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-12
FOR THE LADIES.
How to Dress lhe Hair.

The ladies feel a special interest in
whatever is calculated TO heighten their
appearance, and knowing that they
will be grateful for any information in
that particular that we can furnish
them, we condense the following de-
scription of the mode of dressing the
hair: The style of coiffure is decidedly
closer to the head than has been worn
for several years The absurd did0nonS
French for "waterfalP'-and rolls at
the side of the face will soon disappear
from view. The mode most in vogue is
the empire, which has much of the hair
drawn back from the face; has the little
curls on the forehead, and the high
putfs and twists of ancient model. This
will be found suited to persons with
marked features, and good necks to be
revealed by the uplifted hair. The
Grecian style brings abundance of
waved tresses low on the brow, and
confines them in close mass behind.
Women with straight, regular features
may wear this style with pride, and fas-
ten the golden grasshopper on their
brow, after the old Athenian custom,
sacred to those of pure civic blood. A
woman with aquiline features will
simply look as if she had forgotten her
self If she wears this coiffure.
To dress the head after the empire
style requires that the front hair be
parted three or four inches from the
brow, and turned back in the Chinese
fashion, with a short lock on each side
OF the face, puffed, through which the
ribbon that encircles the head should
be passed. Five very light short false
curls should be pinned at the middle
parting, to the ribbon. The back hair
Is TO be tied very high, and may then
be made into large braid, by twisting
the strands round long, slender frizzetts,
and then plating them. This braid oc-
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straight, and the ends secured in the
same way as waterfall" Or the
hair may be divided into four or five
locks, these twisted around slender
rolls, and the puffs curled round the
back of the head, avoiding evenness of
coil, however, and taking for model
some grand high twist of the fashion
plates of the last century, it YOU can
find such a curiosity. This style gives
most persons a better outline of neck
than the old, low lying masses of hair
allowed, and on good figures gives a
graceful dignity, approaching that of
coronet. Flat, heavy braids at the back
of the head, and coil passing around
the top and the brow, is at once a clas-
sic and stylish mode of dressing the
hair, very suitable for large heads that
require compact form of coiffure.
For evening, the empire style is dec
grated with flowers, coronet of leaves
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ribbon run through the puffs, or a
wreath of foliage, with large flower at
the left of the forehead curIs, and an
other lower down on the right side.
Or masses of small blossoms are in
serted among the loops of the hair at
the side and back of the head. The
wreaths worn this season are very
graceful; no stiff coronets of roses, or
benoitons of flowers all of size. Two
or three roses, or convolvulas, are laid
carelessly on a spray of sharply foli-
aged vine that fails just below the hair,
or is wound irreguIarIy into the puffs of
the hair behind