Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-31
MYSTERY OF THE BANG.
The Secret History of the Fluffy Head
Decoration Revealed.

"What kind Of a bang do you call that 7"
asked IA New York journal reporter of a
young lady as second young lady whisked
pas. the Oriental Hotel piazza at Coney
Island yesterday.
"Why, don't you know?" she exclaimed
in amazement, THAT IS the Langtry baug."
GLOW does she cut 1t in ttose two straight
fringes, one above the other!" asked The re-
porter.
"Oh, there are different ways. wore a
Langtry the first part of the season and can
tell you how l cut mine. / took the old
bang, cut in the ordinary way, and parted it
horizontally. Then took the upper half
and tied it down on my head by piece OF
string. The lower part was ready for cutting
and did it evenly to reach three quarters of
an inch above my eyebrows. When that
was done took band of muslin and tied
the under bang down close to my forehead.
Then united the string, let down the upper
bang, and cut it straight across to reach
within three quarters OF an inch of the edge
of the other. Now my bang is what you call
a Montague bang. You see ! let my bang
grow quite long and cut it down about my
ears; then l curl it with water, in Mon
tagues and tie piece of gauze about my
forehead to keep them in place while sleep.
Then in the morning take them down
and comb them out and they make
dozens OF little ringlets all over the fore
head"
"ls that the reason so many girls go about
in the morning with their heads tied up!
always thought they had the headache" said
the reporter.
"You funny man." she said. "Now sister
Mollie is an odd girl. She has such original
ways Of doing everything. She doesn't put
her hair up at night. She says she did once,
but she looked so homely that she took it
down, and now she washes her hair in little
soda and common soap in the morning and
it gets lively and puffy and curs easily, and
when it is put up for an hour it comes down
quite crinkled and even If the heat should
take 1t out, it docs not look at all bad because
il is so dry"
"What kind oil a bang do you call very
| fine frizzled one p
| "Qh, those are horrid bangs. No one will
any common sense ever wears them. In tho
first place they make the hair, il 1t is dark
look like dirkey's, and then it is so unbe
coming, too"
"What is the best kind of bang?' asket
the reporter.
"One that looks as IL 1t curled naturally
and that does not come down over tht
ears.
1t should reach within an inch or three,
quarters of the eyebrows and he cut stralgh,
across or going down q little at the sides
according to the person who wears it.
woman has to be very particular about tn,
kind of a bang she wears as it alters. the ap
Pearanee Of the whole face. Now when
woman gets to be thirty or even thirty iv,
she ought to have sense enough to stoI
wearing bang. They are only meant fo
young people. Don't you think 80 ?'
"Ies. indeed. How much does falls
bang cost p
"Oh, anywhere from SO to $40, Speaking
about false bangs reminds me of girl wh'
was here at the Oriental last month, aud
pretty girl, too. She wore false bang an,
one evening when she was surrounded by
party of dudes the wind carried her bang Of
down on the lawn. And do you know ,ha
! girl was us calm as anything and sent IN
whole lot Of young men to catch 1t. An,
I've heard that since she married the maj
who brought it back to her, after chasing
almost down to Manhattan Hotel"