Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-03
BANGS In pITTsBURG.
New Ideas In Ornamental Ideas for
women's Hair-several Weddings Yes

| new Aueos IN Ornamentni lucas fOl
Women's Hair-several Weddings Yes.
terdny-Genernl Society News.
"What vista Of thought the very word
| "bangs" suggests. Before ones vision arise
soft fluffy bangs, coquettish curled bangs
pretty infantile bangs, glossy trainable bangs
stiff uncomfortable bangs, dignifed straight
bangs, stylish straight bangs. and-horror upon
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bangsI What q
test the last named are to ones beauty-and
| Christianity. Who has not struggled in vain
with them and resolved as soon as the length
of said bangs would permit to abjure them
forever, and with Puritan severeness appear.
| But, alas! as the cooler, dryer weather comes,
this resolution shares the fate of the majority
| of resolutions.
The bang is a staying feature. An attempt
was made to dislodge il with the pompadour.
which reigned supreme for time, but with
Mrs. Cleveland 1t went out. / adopted the
pompadour with great glee. as l always do a
reform that savors of common-sense. You
know in order to be of note nowadays one must
be uncommon in some things. If they can't be
uncommonly pretty, they must be uncommonly
plain, and If they are unfortunate enough tosbe
neither one nor the other, uncommonly sensible
would be good motto. Well, as 1 say, /
adopted the pompadour and the pompadour
tourished beyond my most sanguine expecta-
tions. 1t was one of the fluffy KIND. and was
the envy of all my male relatives and friends
for months, but the day of woe arrived.
started a natural gas fire in PittsSurg without
previous instructions, and had prospectus
OF future pompadour left-nothing more,
I Immediately consulted a hair dresser and
found that the Rompadour was Iall out of style
ANYWAY La La Toscap being the latest and
Ia Tosca" and is a fac-simile of wig worn
by Fanny Davenport. 1t is a simple round
bang for the forehead, differing from the
saucer bang by being cut very low on the
sides-clear down to the ear, in fact, and it is
very pretty and becoming to all faces. Young,
sweet faces are enhanced by the short wavy
hair artistically cut, of course, and older. more
mature faces lose some of the age and appear
more youthful framed as it were. la Tosca"
promises to be a great favorite the coming
season. The straight, pointed bang remains
very popular with Pittsburg ladies and is very
pretty. The Hading is affected by ladies with
prominent features. In New York the round
fluff bang RACES. In Philadelphia the shingle
saucer bang is paramount Chicago ladies
wear everything from shingled bang to shingled
hair
The stylish coiffure of to-day is either plated
or coiled from the base of the head to the
crown, entirely covering the back part, and
little artificial curls are tucked in at the lowest
point of the coiffure. To complete it are re-
qulred side combs-every one that returns
from Europe sports side combs. They come in
all styles and In all values from modest little
shell ones to handsome ivory and silver ones
exquisitely mounted with precious stones. The
hairpns worn include everything imaginable
in fancy ones besides the ordinary shell, and
are of all sizes and forms In ye olden times
the word hairpin brought to our minds a
straight, disagreeable black wire arrangement
that was more an article OF torture than any
thing else, TOR. as John Chinaman would say, it
took so many Of him to dress even small
quantity of hair and they we're forever making
us uncomfortable by piercing the scalp instead
of staying the hair, and then to find which
separate distinct pin was committing the crime
was often difficult task.
Now. at the word, "hair-pin," what don't we
think of? Such variety of designs, such
multitude of sizes, such a variety of material
used in the manufacture of themI The artistic
coiffure and pin of to-day are certainly de-
cided improvement upon the plain, straight
coils and pin of the past.
THoRNE BRANCH.