The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-07-21
FOR THE LADIES.
Hair-Dressing.

with preference for the former, but /
the style depends entirely on the wearer.
With long faces the hair is dressed
low behind and very broadly, reaching
from ear to ear, so that it may be seen
from the front. With broad face and
short neck, and also for very short
person, the hair is drawn to the top or
crown of the head, and massed there.
The stylish low coiffure is made Of two
small switches twisted together in sort
of coil, having a narrow curve at the
top, and being broad below, with a
curve reaching close behind each ear
this gives the effect of many small soft
puffs, and is completed by placing short,
very thick curl on each side quite near the
ear. This is meant for full dress, and
looks well with the front hair arranged
in the fluffy English way that is again
in fashion instead of rings or curls or
waves, the short hair above the forehead
is picked apart, and almost each sepa-
rate hair allowed to stand outward, and
this fuffiness is confined, though not
fattened, by an invisible net. The
newest false fronts provided to save
lady's own hair are now prepared in
this fluffy style, with some long hair at
tached to pass over the back of the
head into the back hair in the most nat
ural way. Ladies who have q good suit
of hair, and do not use switches, tie
their back hair about the middle of the
back of the head, and make figure
8 toward each ear. For morning
and plain occasions the hair is twisted
into very fiat coil close against the
head, and this is placed very low; or
else the plait of three tresses is passed
back and forth between the ears quite
down on the nape OF the neck, and the
front hair is simply waved in loose, nat
ural-looking waves. The water waves
close to the face are abandoned, and
ladies who want to wear the hair parted
in the middle put it up on pins at night
to make loose waves, If perspiration
takes out these waves they provide two
or three little pieces of natural curly
hair made up on foundation, and thrust
these under their own front hair on the
forehead; the wearer's own hair may
come out Of crimps by moisture, but the
additional locks will not, if made OF
hair that waves naturally. For high
coiffures two soft, loose-loOking coils
are twisted across the top of the head,
and the front hair is arranged in the
fluffy way already described. This
| fiuf1iness does not suit all faces and is
apt to suggest at once Du Maurier's
caricatures of English aesthetics and
many ladies retain the becoming Mon
tague curves and waved bangs, although
the most fashionable hair-dressers say
there shall be no rings, no curls, no
locks upon the forehead. The elaborate
coiffures reported from Paris are not
yet adopted here, and the most fashion.
able women wear the simplest styles,
appearing at ceremonious entertain
ments with merely small low coil and
fluffy front hair, with the sole ornament
q low comb that has riciere of dia
monds for its heading. Ladies who
have lost their front hair conceal bald.
ness by one of the excellent front pieces
that are now made on self-adjustablt
foundations, held in place by spring
that can be put on without hairpins
and ara easily kept in place; these
are made up with hair that waves
naturally, some of which falls for
ward from O cross I artiug, GnC
the remainder goes back on the head
Those who have so little back hair tina
they cannot wear o switch, or are no
successful in arranging the hair stylish
buy the self-adjustablo chignon, formed
of curls or braids, and also held in plac,
by a spring, or else the multiform
which serves for both front or back hair
and may be arranged in the simplest o
most elaborate manner, and which l
very light, weighing only three ounces
Ladies with gray hair wear loose wave
in front, with twisted coils or low braid
behind, or else they retain the Pompa
dour roll so becoming above low, broad
Greek forehead. All dyes are happil
out of use for old and young alike, AM
though young people have preferenc
for tawny and reddish gold hair, th
still better fashion for being natural pre-
walls in hair as in many other things
Bangs for children's hair are not now Gu
from ear to ear, as they have been, but ar
merely across the forehead. and any sid
bangs not yet grown out are brushe
up, and put in with the back hair, whic
is combed straight back, and tied by
ribbon that passes around the hea(
Tying the hair in a bunch behind or o
, top of the head has been abandoned, 8
it makes bald spots back of the ears c
on top of the head. 1t is then allowe
! to hang, flowing straight withoT
crimps If it is inclined to curl, it
put in about five loose soft curls th'
hang behind.
, Further hints about hair.-Ha
! wears lighter, and is changed by pc
spiration; hence, in selecting false hal
+. it should be dark enough to begin witt
, The hair on the temples and forehead
lighter than that further back, an
to be well-matched requires lighter add
tional hair than that chosen for a switcl
Brushing il the best stimulant for II
Z hair and should be done twice day
: fifty strokes in the morning, and aga
in the evening, passing the hand ov
:, the hair occasionally between stroke
!. is commended by ladies who have +
tanned handsome hair beyond midd
I" age. The ends of the hair should
It clipped once q month to keep it thi
n and even. To do this thoroughly, h
O hair should be taken up in tresses, al
comb drawn through each tress, /
r. ginning at the roots, and doubling t
4, hair around the comb, so that in passil
IS the short ends will be seen, and can
h clipped. To prevent the hair fall
le out after an illness, six inches shou
N be cut off, and after this for TIN
or four months half an inch shou
al be cut off each month. The cheap b
ID of which SO much is sold is usually I
n | vpbOlaconoa stuff. IL is NOT a1wavs r.