The Washington times., 1906-04-14
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PROPER COIFFuRE
WITH EASTER BONNET
The Hairdresser and Not the MiIliner
Is Really the Autocrat This Spring.

For the first time since the early
Victorian era Of fashions, the coinure
or ehignon. and not the Easter hat, is
the absorbing question OF the moment
You may touch the top notch of prices
In millinery and yet, neglecting to pay
your devotions to the hairdresser's S
altar, be hopelessly out of style. In
fact II is the hairdresser and not the
miliiner who will set the seal of sue
cess on your Easter get-up.
Fot more than half a century women
have been permitted TO dress their hair
In manner which. despite many ex-
tremes of bangs and pompadour. has
still suggested naturalness. Today the
end and aim of the hairdresser seems
TO be the suggestion of a wig. and it
matters little whether the effect is ac-
complished by a woman's own hair or
the multiplicity of hirsute devices
which nimble fingered hair workers
now evolve. And mark you, the smart
est woman has these evolved from her
own combings and not from the hair
supply of the shop. No combings are
too small to command the attention Of
the modern maker Of transformations,
curls. fringes. bangs, etc
Hats Unbecoming if the Hair Is Untidy.
Presupposins that you have just or
dered from your milliner one of those
chic and indescribably trying chapeaux
that resemble lid ten inches in diam
eter or less. tip tilted on the side with
feathers and flowers, make your very
next duty a visit TO an expert coiffeur.
Above all things do not let your hus-
band or your sweetheart catch a glimpse
OF you in the new creation until the
dapper Frenchman in your favorite hair
dressing establishment has used his skill
In the becoming arrangement OF your
coinure. The average man is strongly
preJudlced against the new hat, and YOU
shoold only let him see you wearing 1t
when you are at your best
Therefore, tuck the hat back in .he
bandbox as soon as IL arrives and HE
you to the aforementioned builder of
coinures- II your hair has been sham
pooed and is full Of electricity and dis
porting ends his first act viii be TO
OIL II with a preparation whose secret
IS his own This will smooth down the
Questionable ends and give the entire
head OF hair a packed appearance that
reminds you OF the locks In bronze work
Now the greater part of your hair is
drawn forward or away from the center
OF the scalp in thick fringe back and
front and sides, and the mere whisp left
NAt tAOon Oi Nut nedQ Is knOtte0 or
twisted into a liStle mat Then with in
Unite care the fringe is marceled II YOU
have small amount of hair, the Golf
feur fastens on the crown OF your head
a wire cushion. and this. by the way is
wonderfully light and sanitary. very dff-
terent from the mat of coarse hair or
hair cloth once used for this purpose
How il Is Done.
Over this cushion is drawn the whisp
OF hair left on the crown. after which
II Is padded with the ends of the fringe
rolled and fastened with innumerable
Invisible hat pins. Very few large hair
pins are employed and the marcel at the
back is pronounced but not baggy. 1t
Is allowed to drop enough to give the
chignon effect, yet not fan on the neck
and give an untidy look.
Now II you are fortunate enough TO
possess handsome switch made from
your own combings, this is braided IN
four streams instead OF three and is
laid around the cushion standing up like
coronet. the higher the better. II yoa
are dressing for the street no ornaments
are used save jeweled combs. II for the
evening. the ostrich feather OF spark
Ing aigrette is employed. And lastly.
the entire coiffure is touched up with
brillantine and is ready for the dinky
little hat, for which Il has been espe-
cfally built, and which will now Ind
favor In the eyes of any man not wise to
hairdressers' wiles.