Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-29
DRESSING TEE HAIR.
NEW YORK FASHIONS FOR THE
FALL AND WINTER.
Good bye Bangs Return to Styles
of Grandmother's Days-The
Very Latest Things.


pertaining to dress are constantly appear
ing, there has been for considerable
period singular apathy in regard to the
arrangement Of the hair, therefore the
fact that the makers of fashions have at
length awakened to their remisSness and
are reversing matters by bringing out for
the fall and winter styles of coiflure both
new and beautiful, will naturally create
surprise and no little pleasure
That a woman's hair is her chief orna-
ment goes without saying, and it can be
truthfully added that every woman whom
nature has blessed with fine head of hair
knows it, and is Justly proud of her pos
session. Furthermore, she is won't to ex-
emplify the fact by invariably informing
her female friends that it is "aIl her own"
and in dressing it to the best advantage
that the prevailing fashion viii admit.
After the somewhat heightened period
of a most trying and severe fashion of
wearing-so to speak-no hair at all, it
will be refreshing news to every lady who
cares to enhance her good looks and stylish
arrangement of her tresses, that a new era
in hair dressing has arrived.
1t has been said that "the woman who
would not be beautiful if she could is vet
unborn" Whether true to the letter or
open to the exception Of all rules does not
matter but the fact remains that feminine
beauty is the most admired of ali earthly
things, the most coveted of natures gifts,
and the shrine at which all men worship.
Hence, it mas become through the weak
ness of poor humanity for all things fair,
the duty of every woman to make herself
as beautiful and attractive as possible.
From the ancient days, when the lovely
Jewish maiden Rachel won the heart of
loyal Jacob, down through after ages, and
among all civilized nations, womans hair
has not only been considered her chief
ornament, but evidently regarded as part
and parcel of her personal charms. When
portrait painting became general in high
circles, the artists abilities were taxed
fully as much in reproducing the extrava-
CANT coifures of the queens and court
ladies of their time, as in transferring their
features to the canvas before them, all of
which goes to show that from time imme-
mortal fine hair has been highly valued,
hair-dressing always a fashion and some
thing of an art.
Yet, in the face of history's unbroken
record, favoring the preservation and
adornment of the hair, the ladies Of the
present period have not only impaired
their attractiyeness by concealing their
tresses in the most abbreviated style that
could well be designed, but in cases innu-
merable have with almost sang froid had
the back hair clipped close to the head.
The sacrifice Of many luxuriant head of
hair has been the result, and those who
thus parted with their locks in haste are
now repentlng at leisure, unpleasantly
awakened to sense of their loss, all too
late. However, the fashion has changed,
and revival in hair-dressing, as it was
formerly, in graceful, artistic modes, is at
hand, and those who have lost their hair
through the whim of moment must have
recourse to the inevitable switch, or fall
behind the times so far as fashionable
and stylish coifiilre is concerned, which lat
ter, however, it is conceded, is not in the
nature of the sex to do.
The heavy plaits, puffs and flowing curls
in vogue several decades back embraced
many varieties which gave ample scope to
feminine taste, and ladies were thus en-
abled to arrange their hair in accordance
with the shape of their heads and the cast
of their features. But these styles gradu-
ally decreased, each succeeding year bring
ing in simpler ideas, until nothing re-
mained beyond the plain back knot, or, as
some wretch has unfeelingly dubbed it, the
"door-knob twist" and shingled bang
shading the forehead. This simple knot,
commonly called the Psyche" originated
with the sculptors, who have already
adopted the Greek form in the arrange
ment of the hair; but it should be borne
in mind that they also observe the Greek
cast of features, and the two assimilate
well, particularly in marble. On the
human head, however, the effect is less
pleasing, and is fashion which should
never have been accepted by American
| ladies. Their features are not cast in the
Greek mold, nor do they possess the repose
of expression and beautiful rigidity the
sculptor's chisel gives to the marble heads
so much admired. The American features
may be, and are, delicate, and the ex-
preston piquant, vivacious and altogethe,
charming in youth, and dignifed later in
| life, but never severe, and in consequence
bear more elaborate style of hair-dress.
ing with manifest improvement.
The elegant and elaborate toilets, with
their accompanying fash of jewels, which
=, all full-dress occasions demand, call for q
correspondingly elegant and ornate coiifnre
fact which requires no great stretch Of
reason to comprehend; nor is it difficult tc
imagine how much of the effect of ever
Worth's most perfect creationsmust be lost
! in the absence of coiffure becoming the
wearer in keeping with her costume. And
certainly neither the simple Grecian knot
nor the close-cut" hair lately favored
have met-or even meet-the require
ments of perfect full-dress toilet. Hap
PLY fashion, who so often dictates the fan
tastic and strange, relentlessly overruiine
good taste, has ruled out short hair and
decreed that long hair, a coiffure more
elaborate and better suited to the beauti
full costumes of the day, shall be worn, and
it is to be hoped that the abbreviated and
inartistic styles of the past few years will
fall into the utter oblivion they deserve
| A new coiffure, which comes in with all
the freshness of pleasing variety, is az
simple of arrangement as it is graceful
and becoming, and, it is needless to add, i,
meeting with large degree of favor. TC
ladies wishing to dress their hair in thi.
style the directions are: First, twist all the
hair at the top of the head almost close tt
the forehead; place good-sized " from
piece" dressed in loose, fluffy rings, pointed
at the forehead over the twist, so as t.
raise it high toward the crown. The bach
coiffure is dressed with three strands, thus
Take one of the strands, make a plain knot
in the center, so that the curly ends JUS
reach the neck; the two other strands are
twisted loosely in the shape of a "ropt
twist" and placed around the knot in tn,
center, just above the curls near the neck
shape them so as to give long and mar
row effect to the coiffure; the ends, whicl
are curled, are divided in loose rings ant
mingled with the curls of the front piece
The same coiffure can be done with an or
binary switch of three strands, and tn,
little curls above the neck and on the tol
of the crown can be done with pin curls
ornamented with the beautiful and ney
little shell combs devised expressly for thi
coifure, or with any OF the numerou
fancies in pins of amber, jet, shell, or tn
more brilliant and jeweled ornament
adapted to evening dress.
Another new style that will meet witt
great favor among society ladies is modi
fed form of one of the many elepan