The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-28
UP GOES THE PRICE OF HAIR.
BAD NEWS ron WOMEN WITH
PO.NP.tDOTRS TO PROP.
Rates From Third to a Half Higher and
still illsins-Increasin6 Demand Ono
Cause, Education AnOther-Sw ctiish
Blond Hair Particularly Scarce.

The women who have laid in their summer
supply Of false hair and stored up few
extra ringlets for next winters use may
boast just now of their foresight in taking
advantage of a good hair market and getting
is going up, and little batch Of fine blond
hair large enough to prop up the front OF
a pompadour, costs more now than at any
other time in the past twenty years.
The women who consider the newest
things in human hair as household neces-
saries and who make frequent visits to the
hair stores to keep informed on the styles
have in the last few days been astonished
and greved to learn that the prices Of all
kinds OF hair have been moving steadily
up. There has been an advance in the
price of hair every few days for the last
two months so that at present many varie-
ties are selling for 30 40 or even so per cent.
more than at the first of the year.
The New York hair merchants are not
to blame for the high price of hair. In
fact they are not making so large profits
out OF the sales of wigs and switches as
they did in the days when they sold whole
head of hair for about half the price they
now ask for first class pompadour. Tie
that the demand in this city is larger to-day
than it has ever been in the history Of the
business. in spite Of the higher prices
Although women as general rule do not
buy in so large quantities as they did few
years ago the number Of purchasers Of small
increased that the demand is much larger
than it was couple of years ago. This
big local demand is one of the factors help
ing to boost prices; but it is only small
factor.
The peasants in Europe are the people
who are sending up the price of good human
hair The country girls on the Continent
who have, for half century. supplied the
hair crop of the world are just beginning
to realize the value of their merchandise and
to demand better prices for their tresses.
Then the demand for good hair is larger
this year, the importers say, among Eng
!ish and French women than ever before.
For both reasons the prices have gone UP
on the Continent and the local dealers
must bid higher for their stock II they
are to secure the fine quality of goods
which New York women demand.
The hair-cutting season is over for this
year. The girls have gone to the fields for
the summers work, and there will be no
more large hair harvests until fall, for the
girls will not sell their hair in the summer
time, The buyers for the large human
hair houses Of this city are just returning
from their spring tours Of the Continent,
during which they gathered their years
supply and are making unusual reports
to the heads OF their houses. A partner
in one of the largest wholesale human hair
houses in the country returned on Friday
from four months tour through Europe
In the quest after human hair. He pur-
chased thousands Of pounds of hair in
the different countries, which will be dis
fributed through the United States during
the next few months
The chief reason for the advance in the
cost Of hair is, he said. that the peasants
are getting better informed and advancing
are being built into the interior where a
few wears AGO there were no roads.
The result 10 that the peasant girls see
well-dressed people and are thems elves