The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-14
soCETYs FADS.

obeded Fad Is Followed
INC NV Later Notion.
,l,, few weeks since the ar
- tbebareheaded fad was noted
IVA U-.snnI. but the idea has COM
!" 80 ,,k speedily, whether by dis
lln'5r-s1,,sbedexample or inherent COM
aus ', 40 is now many followers. CO.
~ 1atlk to the Tybee dances at
He "a long been permissible. II has,
i''e - been more usual to wear
NV" I'll headgear that is removed
'0'' the pavilion is reached and
ol..,s,taI in a heap with many others
~ inch lust back of where each
,rtil,lE group of friends gathers
= The brow of weary individuals
oa,irg vainly in the crowd for a
,l,t RE members of that very young
y Of ,ot vet out, school girls who still
4 n-aar heir hair in braids, seem to
n bs,,a decided this summer to leave the
tronblAsorne hats at home altogether
ard last week you might have met
,ber, not by night but in broad day
ion, and hot afternoon sunshine go
M down to the O'Clock train, bound
+o~ Tvbee. without so much as a sim
OLE hat among them. That they looked
1rAttv and attractive in their fresh
iubite frocks, with their fluffy heads
,,,t,a hare except for the big bows that
-jsd each long braid, could not be de-
Med II remains to be seen whether
8fheir staider grown-up sisters will not
soon follow their example.
Among men, the custom seems slow
er of adoption, although having no long
hacks to get disarranged and blow in
&tbeir eyes one might expect them to
n he more eager after the new fashion.
ITvo years ago at the North the fad
No taken quite as strong a hold on
8the masculine fancy as on the femi-
nine and the hatless man driving, au-
tomobiling riding horseback, and; of
course. at all the sports, was quite the
mule rather than the exception. In con-
Ss4ryative Savannah he has yet to make
bis appearance. ..
From Newport now comes the rtifnor
nf a still later notion that grows very
8naturally out of the first. This is
tnown as the "hair-hanging down.
the-back" fad, and was started, ae-
cording to creditable authority; by
tbosa three much written-of young Ia
dies. Natica Rives, Cynthia Roche and
Natalie Schenck. The story is rather
AN entertaining one, being to the ef-
fleet that Miss RiVes and Miss Roche
bad made an appointment one MORN
hing. which, when the hour came, they
Nere unprepared to keep, owing to the
tact that the maid of each had, quite
unknown to the other, given her mis-
tress an early shampoo, and the re-
bellious locks refused to dry in time.
THE telephones were soon ringing to
explain the difficulty, and there was
considerable laughter when each dis
covered, that by an odd accident, they
were paced in the same dilemma. Out
of this amusement grew the daring
plan of enjoying their morning drive
in spite Of fate and meddlesome maids,
band half an hour later, the report goes,
they appeared on famous Thames
Street, to the amazement even of New
port, with their damp locks streaming
In the wind. Miss Rives, whose brown
hair reaches just below her shoulders,
wore it tied up at the top. with a wide
black ribbon. and Miss Roche, whose
dark locks fall below her waist wore
demure and fetching schoolgirl
plat. Soon they met Miss Schenek,
the third in this trio of chuTns. She
stopped the high cart for a summary
explanation, caught the spirit of the
joke, and mounting beside her friends,
took the hairpins out of her yellow
tresses, and thus the three drove about
the town.
In this fashion started the hanging
hair fad, and already it has reached
to New York, where, it is said, in
Central Park, of a summer morning,
Its many devotes may be found.
Whether it will take is still a ques-
ton. One writer denounces it fiercely
as return to sawagery, adding that
now "a few feathers and little paint
would do the business" But there
are still those to commend it, and to
think that binding up ones hair is a
matter of fashion rather than Of civili-
zation and that tortoise shell pins and
SIDE combs do not necessarily indicate
an advanced state OF enlightenment.