The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-23

and baked dry in an oven. Such
crown braid with Psyche curls costs
800.
Finger puffs are not much used; they
have been arranged in stiff set rows,
or else stuck about on the head SO neg
ligently and in such impossible places
that they have lost favor. In their
stead are knots of hair, else q bow, or
a single long loop; for instance, in
stead OF filling up the crown braid with
puffs, the wearer's own hair is tied very
high and brushed forward to form q
single long loop that fills up the crown.
A tuft OF small curls that are little
more than bunch of the short creve-
cGur locks in rings and half-rings is
sometimes used inside the crown braid.
Of course there is no ctatelaine with
the crown braid; the back hair is
combed straight up FROM the nape of
the neck and short Greek curls COM
plete the back. Several pretty orna-
mental pieces to take the place of finger
pulls may be made of short switch of
hair. Thus it may be tied in a knot
with rounds ends somewhat like the
figure 8, and is then stuck on one side
OF the head; or else it may be tied tight
~ IN the middle, and the hair drawn
back over it to make it resemble a
Pompadour roll; this is then placed
straight across the head just behind front
hair that is turned upward from a low
forehead. Another way is to crimp
the small braid in long loose waves,
and place it as trcss of "undulated
hair" as dealers call it, inside the
crown braid; sometimes this waved
tress is formed of the lady's own back
hair when tied very high, instead of the
long loop just described. The hair-bow
of several loops at each end, instead of
the single stiff loop formerly used, is on
full-dress coiffures. The general object
of the hair-dresser is to follow as nearly
as possible the outlines of the head; for
this reason many ladies use only a sim
gle-looped braid as a chatelaine, and
reverse the other braid across the top
or crown, in the shape of letter S.
Invisible nets made of real hair of the
exact shade of the natural hair are
worn across the front to keep crimped
hail in place; these cost twenty-five
cents for ordinary shades of brown or
black hair; gray nets and those of very
light blonde hair cost trifie more.
Many young ladies continue to wear the
thick, clustering Montague locks of
crescent shape on the forehead and
temples; these are very becoming to
oval faces, but they shorten round faces
unpleasantly. Long curls at the back
ard sides are not used; the short Greek
cluster of curls for the back and tuft
for the side or center of the crown are
more fashionable.
For full dress the more the hair is
tortured out of place the more stylish
is the couture. Everything described
above-thc crown braid, the classic
curls, the knot on the side, and the I'M
dulated tress, or else a loops COM
bined in a single full-dress couture; and
yet, rs they are al. soft, real hair, in
stead of being stuffed with topsies, as
was formerly the custom, the natural
contour of the head is retained. There
is fancy for raising the crown braid
slightly higher on one side, and just
below this is an ornamental knot Of
hair, or else the spray of flowers, or a
feather, or a jeweled ornament, is
placed here; only single very small
ornament is added to the fancifully-
dressed hair.
Gray hair is the most expensive hair,
now that hair dyes have gone out of
fashion. Formerly dealers were re-
luctantly compelled to take several
ounces of gray hair in every case of inn
ported hair; now they are made to pay
more for gray hair than for any other,
not excepting the golden blonde or the
rare Titan red. The white-gray hair
not that with blue tinges-is really a
fashionable shade. Silver gray hair,
that looks like handsomely powdered
hair, is not considered gray enough.
Ladies ask hair-dressers to bleach their
natural hair when it is turning gray.
hut this cannot be done with safety.
Correspondents who have asked how to
whiten the hair are warned that this
bleaching process is quite as injurious
as dyeing the hair black or yellow. If
the hair is washed thoroughly every
day, and well dried to make it fluffy,
these baths, with the aid of time,
will whiten it fast enough. 1t is such
a difficult matter to get handsome long
white-gray hair that a lady's single
outfit, consisting of a braid, a scalp
cite, and three puffs of the best
quality of this shade, costs 5000; and
a crown braid of the creped white hair,
permanently crimped and finished
with curls, is 1925. Many of the switch
es sold for natural gray hair are made
of dark hair that has been bleached, and
is liable to fade.
Oils and pomades are not used on the
hair. Frequent shampooings are adj
vised by the hair-dressers, and great
deal of brushing done by strong, swift
strokes to bring out the natural oil of
the hair, and thus make it look glossy
without looking greased.-Hdrper's
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