Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03

XXTHATBVER else a woman may
wv be reticent about-when it has
to do with the ways and
means of living up to the fashionable
type-she takes no pains to conceal the
fact that she wears false hair.
False r. is the correct thing foi
the moment, and, of course, everybody
is using it. That is, every woman who
wants her head to have the same mod
ish general outline every other wo-
mans head has.
Puffs and curls and plaits, bought in
the shop ready to attach, have always
been one of the pet foibles of woman
kind. But the greatest secrecy used to
be maintained in the purchasing and
the wearing of these false pieces. Not
even ones most intimate woman friend
was allowed to see all the artificiality
of ones coiffure, and if any of the
sterner sex got an inkling that all was
not as nature had intended the chances
were that the devotee of false treSses
came. near expiring of modification.
That was how women felt about 1t
In the olden days. But times have
changed, and so have women in a gooo
many ways, and there is no better
example OF their independence and be-
lief in the modern maxim that all is
fair in the fight for beauty than in
the way they take to false hair.
After all what is the use of maxi
ing fuss over the little external de-
1iciencies of nature? To the intelligent
woman these slight oversights are of
small consequence, for the reason that
they can be so readily supplied by art
and science, and to be perfectly frank
and open about them gives her a
strong advantage in other directions.
Let woman acknowledge or at least
not attempt to conceal, her most an
parent physical imperfections and she
gains your confidence. Then she has
more time and energy to devote to the
more important deceptons as to her
mental attainments if it is necessary to
pose, and this is where a little clever
ness goes long way.
Reasons for False Hair
There are two important reasons for
the revival of false hair coiffures. One
is that during the last two or three
years, since "Marcelling" has been in
vogue the heads of fashionable women
have suffered irreparable damage.
Sometimes this has been due to an in
efficient coiffeur. who has burnt and
singed the hair past restoration. and
again the opinion has been advanced
by experts that constant curling with
irons and the "roughing" process-run-
ming the comb in the wrong way to mat
the hair on the under side and give a
foundation for the coiffure-have COM
bined not only to ruin a good head of
hair but to cut off any chances for
future crowning glories. Whether these
statements are true or not the fact re-
oil
twenty fashionable women possesses
enough hair of her own to make any
sort of showing at all. The other
reason for the false hair rage is the
style of coiffure offered by Partisan
authorities as the latest and most ap-
proved model. When an expert hair
dresser tells the one woman out of
twenty that even her luxurlant tresses
cannot possibly be built up into a smart
effect without the aid of false braid,
some idea of the utter hopelessness of
the nineteen others may be gained. II
takes false hair to be fashionable, and
1t takes plenty of it.
There Is this difference between the
new deception and the old Whereas
before the natural hair was used as n
shield to hide false pieces, now the
order Is reversed and ones own tressas
are arranged i'm such a way that they
form the coiffure foundation, upon
which additional pieces are pinned.
There is an immense advantage in this
disposition of the false hair. especially
when II is necessary to give a hasty
tidying to the coiffure, say when one is
shopping or travelling. 1t Is so easy to
remove the external layer OF false hair
smooth 1t out and readjust it. An odd
and interesting feature of the fashion
is the utter indifference some women
show as to the effect their actions pro-
duce on others. In street cars they
have been seen to detaeh a little cluster
of curls, twist each spiral and then put
them back in place without the CULVER
of an eyelash or sign of embarrass-
ment They have even removed whole
buns and then pinned them on before
a waiting room full of men and women.
Builds have been lifted off entire and
returned after brushing to their orig