Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-16
False Hair-Its Enormitaes and 10.
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DOES any lady ever look at the sr--
rangement of any other ladys hair! Does
any lady ever look into a hair dresser's
shope IL 90, how does the hideous chignon,
in its present proportions, hold its grOundr
If any woman's head grew into such
monstrous shapes as may now be seen In
all directions wherever women are congre-
gated together, it would be . cause Of
mourning to her family, Of consultation
among eminent surgeons, and she would
probably spend the greater part Of her
time in judicious seclusion. Here shall
be woman with small, delicate features,
a small head and Of small stature. In
stead Of making the most of the natural
beauties with which she Is gifted, she friz-
zics aud cuts, and gums her front hair into
all sorts of uncouth forms. and sunncunts
her back hair with an enormous ball Of
somebody else's tresses.
The lady appears to have two heads,
one (the artifciaD considerably larger than.
the other. The hat has to be perched on
the nose, and most preposterous result Ia
presented However, there is one virtue
about the chignon--it Is honest. There il
no deception, gentlemen. Even II the "a
to suppose that the potters' knots on their
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would be useless. For the hair dressers,
anxious to advertise their wares, have rem
dered that deception an impossibility.
Their shops are full Of chignons Plain
chignons; frizzled chignons; chignOns
woven into pattern similar to the large
basket work used chiefly for waste paper
baskets chignons with straight, flimsy
tresses pendant from them chignOns OF
every variety have long been familiar To
the male observers. H NF na5
Z As we look into our fashionable hair
dresser's, moreover, we become aware OF
long and thick plaits of hair, of arrange-
ment Of curls. and of similar devices,
braids, and bands of most astonishing
extent. And these hirsute receptions are
evidently not intended solely for elderly
ladies' as were the fronts (hideous devicesD
of tho bygone generation, but for ladies Of
all ages. IT would seem as If real female
head Of hair was not To be found in these
times "The glory Of woman IL her
hair" we are told; but nothing is said
about the glory being attainable by the
use Of somebody else's hair. Men have
their faults, heaven knows, but in matters
Of this sort they show little more sense
than women. 1t Is fashionable to wear .
beard and most mems faces are improved
by ii yet false boards, chin chignons, 30
to speak, have not yet become popular.
We are afraid, however, to cry out too
loudly against the chignon Feminine
taste IL q grewsome thing to neddle with,
and it is very possible that q sudden
change might be made, and we might find
ladies with their hair, whether scanty or
abundant, plastered tight down To their
heads. g.-s.,...,.+.}f
So il was with crinoline. In rnodera-
ton and In its earlier days, it was grace
full and convenient fashion. The era Of
iron hoops, of horse hair substances many
| inches thick, Of enormous size and utter
unmansgeableness, set in. The crinoline
became an instrument of torture to
wretched men, and must have been most
inconvenient and uncomfortable TO It's
wearers. When, at last, the fashion chang
cd, was the sensible part of the dress re-
tained, and the absurd rejected? Not q
bit Of II. Horrible, straight, clinging
skirts, with long, trailing trains, succeeded,
and on the whole, it may be said that the
tyranny OF fashion is worse than 1t was.
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