The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-01
FOR THE FAIR SEX.

lhe lhiI ~ dressed very simply tn1S
season, and close TO the head, showing
all its outlines. The voluminous puffs
and chignons worn last year are entirely
out of fashion, and very little false hair
Is used, except in natural looking
switches for enlarging the braids in
which the back hair is arranged. Low
coitfures are most in favor, though
ladies who are short, OF those with
round faces, still wear the hair dressed
high, though puffs and braids are not
sued by them. The only stylish high
couture is formed by combing all the
hair upward from the nape of the neck,
then covering the top or crown of the
head with large soft knot, made by
tying a switch in a loose, fluffy knot,
and tucking the ends beneath out OF
sight. If the forehead is low, the front
hair is then combed straight back, and
left plain; but ifthe forehead is too high,
it Is shaded by irregular Montague
waves, or else by short bang. Low Golf
fures are more generally becoming TO the
oval faces of American ladies'. The
popular chatelaine braids are still used
quite low at the back, and these are now
two loops, each plated of three tresses,
put straight and quite together down
the middle Of the back of the head then
each is curled around in loop, which,
when spread out, fills all the space be-
tween the ears. This is very easily
arranged with false hair, but is more
troublesome for those who have suf1i-
cient natural hair TO form the braids.
Large coils are worn again, and are
placed very low down. These ore not
the small Greek knot. nor yet the plat
rolled around, but are long thick tresses
twined carelessly. or else twisted in a
thick rope coil. Besides the becoming
Montague curls there are three ways of
arranging the front hair: First, with the
loose waves that look natural, and leave
the parting of the hair visible; second,
in the water waves that are made to lie
fiat on the forehead; and third, with
the short bangs cut off quite square at
the corners. The natural-lookinr
waves must not he fluffy, now that
smooth hair Is again in fashion. They
are easily made by putting up
the hair on two or four hairpins, and
wearing 1t so all night. The hair should
be only slightly moistened, as when
made wet the waves will be too much
like creped hair. Hairdressers saw
they cut bangs for ladies of thirty years
and under, precisely like those worn by
children, though ladies should not al
low them to grow as long as the bangs
seen on children. A little bandoline is
used on these straight bangs, and also
on the water waves, and this is the
only dressing now commended for the
hair. An occasional shampooing to
keep the hair clean, and great deal OF
brushing, done in quick strokes, after
each of which the hand is passed over
the hair, will be found better than any
nostrums for making the hair retain its
natural luster. When n false front
must be used by reason of badness, or
to give the natural hair time to grow,
that with live water waves, made quite
flat, and showing no parting in the mid
die, is one the best. Another false piece
has large, deep. natural looking waves
covering the entire top of the head. Still
another is a narrower band or tress OF
hair slightly waved and cut off in front
to form some Montague locks. For the
back hair, when there is very little nat
ural hair, a long full switch is arranged
to form n crown braid, quite far back,
and each end is then turred up to make
chatelaine loops. For this thick braid
it is well to buy the crimed, fluffy hair
that has had the crimp baked in,
80 that it is permanent, rs this is not so
heavy rs n straight switch.
Very young ladies wear the back
hair fastened in small knot quite low,
in the fashion now called rAnglaise.
With the the coiffure a Ia Vierge the front
hair Is In smooth bands drawn down
behind the ears. For full-dress occa-
sions comb or single flower placed low
behind the left ear is sufficient orna-
ment. With the small bonnets now
worn on the back OF the head, smooth
bands, or else natural-looking waves,
are best for the front hair, as these are
nothing to the size of the head. The
old fashion of twisting pearls in the
coil of hair is revived by Parisiennes.
The preference here is for thrusting a
dagger of shell or OF jet through the back
hair, or else wearing narrow comb
stuck in one side in Spanish fashion.
Side combs of shell are also used again.
A pretty caprice with morning toilets
is that of wearing a tiny Japanese fan
not larger than the shell daggers thrust
through the knot of hair in the way
ese women. Natural flowers are
now worn on the corsage. Artificial
flowers are entirely abandoned for such
purposes. 1t is the fancy to wear only
a single large flower low at the back, in
stead of a cluster or wreath of smaller
ones. The flower on the corsage is then
chosen to match, and is worn on the left
side OF the neck, quite high and far
back; If other flowers are used, they are
stuck in the belt on the left side. Ladies'
who have gray hair do not conceal it
with any disguise whatever, eschewing
not only dyes, but lace head-dresses and
caps. except the muslin caps worn in the
morning. Children still wear bangs on
the forehead, while the back hair is long
and flowing. Larger girls wear Margue.
rite braids, or else braided loops, with
either bang or nat nral waves in front
The unclean practice of putting oil on
the hair has been abandoned, and the
natural oil of the hair is brought out by
much brushing with stiff brush; the
keeps the scalp clean and
prevents the accumulation of dandruff,
which is said to be increased by the use
of fine combs. There is in the market
a new electric brush, which is reputed
to promote the gro With of the hair, and
also to cure headaches. This brush has
met with great favor in England, where
1t has been warmly commended in high
quarters -Hdrper's Bdzdr.