Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-10
Concerning False Hair.

Does any lady ever look at the ar
rangement of any other lady's hair?
Does any lady ever look into hair.
dresser's shop2 II so, how does the
hideous chignon, in its present proper
tions, hold its ground? If any woman's
head grew into such monstrous shapes as
may now be seen in all directions where
ever women are copgregsted together, it
4, would be cause of mourning to her fam
| lily, of consultation among eminent sur
gsons, and she would probably spend ihe
greatest part of her time in judicious Sc
clusion. Kere shall be a woman with
small, delicate features, small head,
and ofsmall stature. Iastead of making
The most of the natural besuties with
which she is gifted, she fr'zzles, and cuts,
and gums her front hair into all sort- OF
uncoulh forms, and surmounts her back
hair with an enormous ball of somebody
ese's tresses
The lady appears to have tive heads,
one (the artifciaD considerably larger
than the other. The hat has to be perched
on the nose, and most preposterous re-
suit is presented. However, there is one
virtue about the chiguon-it is honest.
lutTt uO ucCepLlOuf iS'Sh
if the ladies were desirous of trying to
lead people to suppose that the poriers
knots on their heads are composed of
their own hair, it would be useless. For
the hair-dresserr, anxious to advertise
their wares, have rendered that deception
an impossibility. Their shops are full OF
chignons. Plain chignons; frizzed CHG
mons; chignons woven into a pattern
similar to the large bssket-work used
chic fly for waste-paper baskets; chignons
with supplementary curls; chiguons with
straight, himsy tresses pendant from
them; chignons of every variety, have
long been familiar to the male observer.
AS we look into our fashionable hair
dresser's, moreover, we become aware OF
long and thick plaits of hair, of arrange
ments of curls, and of similar devices,
braids and bands, to most astonishing
extent. And these hirsute deceptions are
evidently not intended solely for elderly
ladies'. as were the fronts (hideous de-
vices y of the bygone generation, but for
ladies' of all ages. 1t would seem as if
a real female head of hair we're not to be
found in these times. "The glory of
woman is in her hair, we are told but
nothing is said about the glory sttaina-
BILE by the use of somebody else's hair.
Men have their faults, heaven knows, but
in matters Of this sort they show a little
more sense than women. 1t is fashion
able to wear beard, and most mems
faces are improved by it; yet false boards,
chin-chignons, 80 to speak, have not yet
become popular. We are afraid, how
ever, to cry out too loudly against the
chignon.
Female taste is q grewsome thing to
meddle with, and it is very possible that
a sudden change might be made, and we
might find ladies with their hair, whether
scanty or abundant, plastered tight down
to their heads. So it was with crinoline.
In moderation, and in It's earlier days, 1t
was graceful and convenient fashion.
The convenient and graceful period very
quickly vanished. The era of iron hoops,
of horse hair substances many inches |
thick, of enormous size aud utter un-
mansgebleness, set in. The crinoline |
became an instrument of torture to |
wretched men, ard must have been most |
iuconvenient and uncomfortable to its |
wearers. When at last the fashion
changed, was the sensible part of the |
dress retained, and the absurd rejected |
Not bit of it. Horrible, straight, cling
ing skirts, with long, trailing trains sue
cesded, and, on the whole, it may be said |
that the tyranny of fashion is worse than |
it was.-AH the Year Round.