Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-14
SPRING OURLS.
Something Of the Coming Styles for
the Head and Hair.

pect more so tnan IN respect to the styles Of
wearing the hair. Four times year,
spring, summer, autumn and winter, re-
gularly With each recurring season, this i'm
perious goddess who rules so despotically
over feminine fates proclaims some new re-
velation of her uncertain taste, and forth
with must every member of the fairer sex,
who deems herself of any account iu
this world, take upon herself new WAYS
ard looks. This one detail must receive
careful attention, or most elaborate
toilet goes, for nothing. Hereto
fore thas required an immense amount Of
moral courage, says a New York cores
pondenE of the Chicago Tribune, for a
woman to Golf her hair as fitted her face
when it did Lot fit the mode; but there
really seems prospect dare scarcely
credit it-that, for seasons to come, she will
be permitted, by the capricious deity We all
serve more or less, TO suit her chignon to
the size and style Of her features. We are
of late beginning to realize that fashion with
out becomingness is a hundred-fold worse
than becomingness without fashion, and
that to look our best, at whatever expense
of prevailing style, is most to be desired.
y, THE LOADS OF FALSE HAIR
That have worried our scalp5 and drained
our purses for halfa-dczsn years are to be
consigned to their proper tombs, and our
own Insignificant tresses made to do duty
by themselves. That is, those who can dis
pense with extraneous locks viii do so, and
those whose hirsute possessions have been
too limited by nature viii use as little as
may be Of somebody's else. Indeed,
so mach has the classic pug
Il 8L,nt
usive proportions are not iDfrequently
very laughabie when compared with the
chatelaine braids worn a twelve-month ago.
The Josephine coil, stra nge to say, is be-
coming to many, and already a faYorite.
For women with low foreheads and oval
faces, no prettier design had been offered
for years. Il is, however, folly to call it by
the French empress name, as it was the
reigning mode more than q hundred years
before her birth.
NOTHING REALLY NEW.
1t is so trite and so true that there Is
nothing new under the sun, that it seems
an offence to repeat it in regard to hair
dressing. And yet, in looking back at the
manner of arranging hair for the last four
centuries, one can find the original of every
fashion that has been prominent in the pres
ent generation. Ever. the coquetish "Pom-
padour," which we are prone to fancy the
famous beauty devised for the gracing of
her peculiar charms, was the chief delight
of other famous beauties two centuries ere
she blazed upon the eourtly horizon and
led her kingly lover so unkingly life.
The single broad braid behind, turned up
from the neck and fastened with bow to
the crown of the head, is only q repetition
Of the way hair was done up in 1773, when
the garments we know as polonaises were
also first worn. So it is with all our styles,
however lew they seem to rs.
HARD TO CHOOSE.
1t is always difficult, at first, to decide
whether a new mode Of hair dressing Is at
tractiye, and it is never well to give up a
mode until il has received sufficient trial.
Nothing so greatly changes, nothing so
thoroughly makes or mars a toilette IS ar
rsngement Of hair. It should be mott
carefully considered, and satisfactory fash
ion once hit upon, should be seldom altered.
If a simple and plain way is best adapted to
ones features, or for ordinary attire, it Is
very great mistake 10 try something new
and elaborate for full dress occasions.
Party apparel is trying to most women,
even when every personal charm Is on their
side; and they cannot afford to lose the
vast advantage of tried and becoming
coiffure. The shape of the head, face, fea-
lures, and the general air, must be COLI
suited in selecting q permanent mode;
and scarcely any rules can be gener-
ally applied. Still it is safe to as
sumo that a lady blessed, or other
wise with long, pronounced chin, should
avoid the Josephine, and all styles that
mass the hair at the top and back Of the
head. Unless this be done, the line from
the point of the chin to the pinnacle of the
chignon will be inartistic, and extremely
ugly. To an oval face with 9 low fore
head, high hair-dressing Is, in the main,
suitable; but, to an oval face with an eleya-
ted forehead. il is the last that should be
caosen. There are even few round faces
that can venture, if not too low-bro we'd,
and not too plump, to appear in the ''Pom-
padour," but it is By no means wise to try
it first on party-night.
It is the most difficult task to find suita-
bic coiffures for high, broad foreheads.
They can never be shaded prettily and CO.
quettishly as low ones can; nor can they
endure severe or odd style. They must
be thoroughly studied in order to unde r
stand their needs, and their needs should
be carefully fulfilled.
CRIMPED HAIR H
Is almost universally becoming, and that is
the secret of its long rage. This simply
shows that classic faces, beautiful or not
(and they frequently are not), are excep-
tional, because it is they alone which crimps
do not suit. Nature made an egregious
l. Il hn kof Of
her daughters straight locks and irregular
noses. They don't harmonic, and
they can't be made to harmonic,
except by the aid of artifi-
cially wearing tresses. Most women look
best with their hair drawn off their fore |
head; and, to the general custom Of so do
ing, We owe the common remark, "How |
much prettier our women are than they |
used to bep 1t is chiefly because Of the |
improvement in the disposal of the chew |
elure that we are led to fancy lovely faces |
lovelier and homely ones less plain.
The frowsy style, SO much .ridiculed by |
our brothers, has many merits worth noting; |
it is regularly irregular at all events. Hair |
lying loosely above the brow, even flying |
wildly about, has subduing effect on i'm
perfect crmplexions and all-but-ugly- moses. |
1t might not at first occur to the careless
observer that the lair had any effect on the
nose; and yet the look of no single feature |
is so positively improved or injured by |
q change of coiffure. Certain faces,
uneven in outline and faulty In feature,
will be made picturesque, if not positively
pretty, by the hair being crimped and al
lowed to lie tightly around them; whereas,
they would be noticeably plain were the
hair put back in its natural straightpess. |
We never think of Juno or Minerva in any
thing but a Greek coil; but, if it were
whispered that Aphrodite used to put her |
hair on pins "on the sly" it would seem |
quite possible, if not probable. .l3
STYLES, ..-.s
One much liked manner Of hair-dressing |
is to comb the back hair up frem the nape |
of the neck nearly to the crown. Make
French twist running across the head in |
stead of the ordinary way; wind about this |
two medium-sized "ropes" of hair; crimp |
The front locks and draw them from the
forehead.
Another is to part off the front; then d.
vide the back in two. Draw back the front |
-crimpled or plain--and fasten with a
hair pin behind. Then braid the back in
two heavy braids, and coil them flat about |
tho hack Of the head. This is one of the |