The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-14
EOR TEE FAIR SEX.
How TO Wear the Vrir

been fashionable tor the last wear. The
rule Is still that coiffures should be low.
although there is tendency to raising
them ever so little more than was done
last winter. In the evening particularly.
ard on occasions when the hair is sup
posed to be dressed more than usual.
colHures will be raised little more
Irom the neck, arranged a little higher
on the back of the head, and brought
little further forward on the top. This
shape of coiffure is the one specially
adapted at all times for married ladies.
Young ladies, generally speaking, affect,
and will continue to affect, the very
sow, Greek-like coiffures, with the hair
brought low on the brow and coiled on
tne neck. AS this style of coffure de-
nnes the contour of the head with the
utmost accuracy. it should not be
adopted by ladies the shape of whose
heads is not all that it should be. Given
a pretty head it is charming coiffure;
given the contrary it is most unbecoming
and ungainly. We have already had
occasion to say that the first considera-
tlon IN selecting a coiffure is that it
should be appropriate to the type of the
lace; No matter how fashionable q
coIffare mag he, if it is not becoming it
should never be patronized. But suit
face, even at the risk of slight singu
larity. 1t always feasible, provided a
woman has any taste, to conform to the
type OF the personal appearance with
Wnich she has been endowed by nature,
ana still to follow, so far as general
character goes, the prevailing fashions
in hairdressing.
Putfs are completely out of date and
nigh colffure as well. 1t is now abso-
iutely necessary to have the back of the
mead covered, and the top of it at least
partially uncovered, so to speak. The
halr can be arranged ia the loose loops
winch have taken the place of cuffs for
col1ures,. rather elaborate than other
wise, and which are more easily ar
ranged to cover the whole back of the
head in graceful shane than are e ron on
ieauS or coils. Braids are always lit
tie heavy and stiff in appearance, and
scarcely make an appropriate or becom-
ing Couture, except for women whose
cast ol features is regular and somewhat
statuesque, and whose general appear
ance is rather massive than otherwise
Iney enter very little, if at all, into the
composition OF the coiffures now FASH
lonable. Some ladies who have a very
abundant suit of hair, form the coil at
the back of the head of loose braids, but
IL Is not as pretty as to see the hair
twisted simply in a thick roll. To re-
turn to the coiffure made of loops, and
which may be worn by women who can
not bear severe style of hairdressing.
the front hair can first be parted in the
middle, and then separated by another
parting, reaching from the middle part
ing to the ears, from the back hair. This
'front.' hair can be crimped, or rather
waved, and carried to the top of the
pack OF the head, where the two locks of
halr are secured firmly with q bairpin.
The hair behind the ears is next sep
arated from the back hair and carried
up. In the same way. The four locks of
hair are then arranged in long and rather
HAT loops, two brought forward toward
the top OF the head just far enough to be
visible above the back of the head when
the latter is held in an erect position,
and two arranged on the sides, above
the ears. To be effective, these loops
should be made SO as to resemble bow
OF hair; little practice will soon give
the necessary dexterity. The back hair
is then divided into two equal parts the
piece at the right of the head is brought
round to the lift side, and the piece at
The left side, ctoss,cE with the other in
the neck, is bi ought round to the right
side OF the head. Both pieces of hair are
fastened firmly right below the bow of
hair. The end OF one is passed in mar
row band through the middle of the
row, to complete the sem mblance of a
knot; the other is turned in between the
bow and the bands of hair against the
neck, so as to torn fifth loop. A very
light, thin net should be drawn care
fully over the coiffure, as the loops of
hair falling on the neck are especially
apt to become roughened and to lose
their shape, if not held in place. This
style OF couture can be composed with Il
moderately good suit of hair, without
the aid Of any false additions. In fact,
jalse hair is now worn as little as pos
sible, the coitfure being usually simple
enough to admit of its being put up
without such help.
The front hair is now worn less
crlmped than IL was few weeks ago.
In many Partisan coiffures the from
hair is arranged in almost fiat bandeaux,
and carried, straight or smooth, away
from the face with Il few fat rings fall
ing over the brow, or a fringe with the
ends turned in like bang, only less
heavy than one. But it is only a small
percentage Of women whose face can
bear this severely simply arrangement
OF the II mt hair, as well as the mass OF
tangled locks over the brow, also fash
,onaole at present, consequently this
latter style has the greater number of
partisans. Bangs are still seen, and are
not exactly out of place, although they
are no longer in the greatest favor. They
are worn more by very young girls than
by young ladies, scarcely ever by mar
ried ladies. Wearing the hair low in
the neck and close to the head has been
The cause of having the front hair
brought down on the forehead almost to
cover the eyebrows often. In itself it |
may not he pretty, but it is very fashion
able in Paris and in England at present
"a touseled eye-darkening mass OF hair |
hanging over the brows being quite in |
keeping with the aesthetic rage now
prevalent in the latter country. But when |
the harris brought down on the brow it |
IS not curied tight, but arranged in |
thick soft rings or in heavy waves. |
A frizzled look about the front |
hair is now no longer admissible. |
To make the front hair take the desired |
Hat waves, it can be dampened slightly
at night and then put up in small braids, |
combed our in the morning and covered |
with hair net; the haic will fall into
the desired lines. For the bang or curls
which fall on the forehead, the simple
and primitive process OF the pipe-stem,
over which, when it is heated, the hair
can be curled, must still be recommended
as the best. Curl-papers are more in
furious, because they pull the hair at the
root; when care is taken not to burn the
hair the DiDe-stem can dO no mannar |