Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-08
UP-TC-DATE COUTURE
THE LOW KNOT HAS NOT ENTIRE
LY BANIsHFD THE PoMPADoUR.
New Transformations to Soften Angu-
lar Faces Hairpins
and Combs.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
The couture is the puzzle of the hour to
the feminine mind. Madame la Mode has
issued her edict that the pompadour with
the rat must go, save for the grande dame
with her white hair, patrician face and vel
vet gown. But for once the feminine world
rebels.
The pompadour, properly dressed gives
girl an air of distinction. Very few faces
can stand hair demurely parted in the mid
die and knotted low the nape of the
neck. AS a result the really clever girl
works out compromise between the high
dressed hair and the low, while the girl
who does rot know how to do the correct
thing clings to her pompadour in the front
and drops her back hair the nape of her
neck-a combination which is startling, to
say the least and leaves an ugly space be-
tween pompadour and knot.
One of the most pleasing compromises
shows the rat removed from the pompadour
and the front hair Marcelled just as if the
rat We're to be used. 1t is then parted On
the side (and, by the way, neither the right
nor the left side is obligatory; a girl must
study her face before deciding where to
place the parD then the hair is drawn
back lightly and knotted on the nape of
the neck, but not too low.
sometimes no part appears, but the pom
p2dour, minus the rat, is waved in three
puts. These puffs are not tight but the
niger or comb is run through them to Sc
cure a light, fluffy, waved effect One ruff
IS Drawn down slightly over the forehead,
and the other two run back from the tenn
PIES or, If the face needs different treat
ment the three puffs run around the brow
Ike a frame. fiuffed and waved so that
.hey practically overlap each other. With
this dressing of the pompadour the hair
may be worn in a fiat figure eight on ton
OF the mead or the waving may continue
over the crown and back of the head and
be caught in with the back hair in a figure
e!ght on the nape of the neck. This figure
e:Sht should not extend below the junction
of the collar with the gown
English Treatment.
For the girl who requires height. and vet
needs softening lines about her face the
English halrdressers offer a very nrettv
treatment of the pompadour 1t is first
MARCHED all around the front in rather a
ueep pun, the center of which is drawn
shghtly down on the forhead and the sides.
iluiilhs out softly over the ears. This first
To" OF pulilng Is held in place by very plain
real tortoise-shell combs, from which rises
IKE plateau second and smaller puff of
Marceiling, in the heart of which the back
mar, Marcelled from the nape of the neck
up, is drawn in a fiat coil and finished with
a butterfly bow, which does NOT stand M
sulily, but seems to cling to the hair This
may be made of ribbon to match the fronk
or OF chiffon, or. better still it NAV he one
Oh me exquisite lace butterflies offered in
all the shops. " ~
A woman who has harsh lines in the face
should study the new transformations which
are In reality false pompadours on very
light net, which come to match al,,ost
e every shade of hair. If properly adjusted
they cannot be detected, but thew are Inv NO
means inexpensive. Part of the transror1
NATION Is waved in pompadour style, but
an around the brow are inserted soft. wavv
little curls, which look for all the world
IKE o.d-fashioned spit curls, made fluffy.
All the English and French hairdressers
are curling the front strands of hair above
the forehead, but they have sworn 70 nro-
tect the world feminine from the return of
the straight English bang.
jet combs and hairpins, plain and carved,
are enjoying something of a vogue The
newest shell pins are not finished with a
nat carved surface, but show a knob-Iike
decoration which has been used on barettes
ana combs The effect of knobs sticking
OUT all over the head docs not appeal to
the woman who likes the smoothly coiffed
mead, so the fancy viii hardly last