The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
FALSE HAIR NOW THE FASHION
WOMAN NEEDS 1T IN HER NEW
ELABORATE COUTURE.

It's Easier to Make the Bows and Twists
and Puts or the Head Than On, and
Many Pins Prevent Acoident-How
the Hair Indicates Ones Social Rank.
Fashions, to some extent, repeat them
selves-fashions Of woman's ooiffure as
well ds OF everything else. There seems
little prospect that lucky man. of the Ameri-
oan variety at any rate, will ever be re-
quired to wear wig and pigtail tied with
q ribbon; but with woman 1t is quite another
story.
The poor thing, willy nily, is everlast-
inRly at the mercy Of Fashions whims,
bound to follow obediently Fashions man
dates, whether they relate to her head or
her heels. So far, luckily, Fashion has
refrained from asking woman to shave her
head by way of creating a new style but
that is easy to understand for in that case
the hair dealers and workers in false hair
the world over would he practically put
out OF business.
As 1t is, these same dealers and workers
are just now exceedingly prosperous.
Fashion has maugurated, or Is trying to
inaugurate, another era Of false hair.
Here ia what the owner OF a New York
hair shop says:
For every ounce of false hair sold this
time last year am now selling two or three
ounces, and switches % inches long have
taken the place Of the 23-inch variety. For
the last six years, though, or ever since men
in general and theatre managers. in par
tioular, frowned down the habit of wearing
hats to places of amusement, false hair has
been coming into it's own again, and just
now it has reached pretty nearly, think,
the high tide Of popularity.
1T is hardly to be expected that the
modern fashionable woman will ever wear
the huge chignons affected by smart women
Of bygone centuries. For one thing they
are too hot Then they are also unbecom-
ing. Still one can never tell what woman
will do.
4In the old days art and nature were
not so well blended in hairdressing places
as they are now. Once upon time, when
the lady of fashion wanted an elaborate,
imposing couture, she usually resorted to a
wig. She had to. Nowadays, outside of
the theatres, wigs are not highly thought OF,
except by very old persons or women who
have lost all their hair because of a fever
or accident. And yet the modern wig
as a work Of art il away ahead of the old
time article. Some of this years models
when on the head are likely to beguile any
but an expert into believing them the rea
thing"
For the first time in a good many years,
say the hairdressers, the woman with
luSuriant head Of hair Is complacent. When
the Psyche knot was in vogue she was in
despair When the small French twist, worn
high on the head, became the rage, she
Wondered seriously over the ACCESSIBILITY
Of har nl nt ba
altar OF fashion. Lots Of women indeed,
went 80 far az to have their hair shingled.
Even now women of wealth with an
abundance OF hair would just as soon have
less, for the simple reason that it is a good
deal easier to arrange artistic puffs and
twists and bowknots of the head than
on, and easier to pin them in place after
they are made to suit the fancy than 1t il
to twist up ones own back hair into the
complicated design indicated by the new
hairdressers Judging BY these, it will
be quite out Of fashion for a woman of
style to attempt a simply dressed Golf
fure this winter.
II intricate though, the new , oof'ur rh is
only one to find fault with it will be the
woman with little OF no talent for hair
dressing fwho longs for the plain, sem
sible coil to come into fashion again and
stay In fashion as long as she lives. There
are WOfUeu lkt tudt.
Yet to master the art OF building an up
to-date couture Is not tremendously difficult
1t can easily be done, in fact by going
two, three, or half dozen times at most
TO skilful haircTesser. There If no other
way to learn the secret, and these visits need
not be put down in the list OF extrava-
gances, either. They are almost neces-
sity.
At the first visit let the hairdresser select
the style OF couture which she thinks best
suits the shape OF her customers head
and face. Then the latter must watch care
fully as the artist begins to work,
The results Of a first trial are not always
satisfactory. That's why two, three, or
more visits are necessary. BY that time
a customer invariably becomes accustomed
to her own head in the new dress and begins
to like it-a result not always gained at the
first visit
Il hate to have my hair dressed by pro-
| fessional," exclaimed pretty woman.
"By the time size Is finished look thoroughly
unnatural
Probably she spoke the truth, for no hair
dresser on earth would dream of putting
up that woman s hair as she was then wear
Ing it-a hard, round pompadour, without
a trace of wave or curl, and carelessly
twisted knob Of hair back of It. Doubt
| Fifth avenue hairdresser had in mind when
she said the other day:
English and French women spend much
more time and money on their hair than
New York women spend, and yet they are
| not nearly 80 extravagant in other mat
| tiers. At the theatre the other night
! noticed woman after woman with careless
sloppy looking couture. There were stray