Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-22
NOW IT Is THE MATTE.
Paris Women Said to Be Crazy Over
the New Couture.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Paris awoke one morning not long ago
and found itself matte crazy. The matte Is
braid. full and fussy and thick. When 1t
is bought at the hairdresser's 1t is only one,
but when it grows on your head it has to be
two.
Never was a style known to take so
rapidly. Ethel Barrymore showed US the
matte when she pushed her front half away
from her pretty forehead and wrapped
two braids about her head in a hirsute
circle. 1t leaves the top portion of the
head unadorned and empty looking. but
If you have well-shaped head you will
be glad of it.
In the French capital you hear only talk
about the matte. She has her matte: when
l shall have my matte; saw the grandest
matte today; my wife's matte: yes, my
daughter is wild for a matte, but it will
make her look too old. the matte may make
your head ache. because it's SO heavy. but
what do you care II you look beautiful
The natural braid doesn't work out we'll
unless one has a head of hair big enough
to figure in hair tonic advertisement
Nobody wants stingy little matte. 1t
must be thick and swelling and fat and
give sort of halo to the head.
To be sure. the braid brushes down the
pompadour. which should be supported
by creme, which is a lot of hair hung to
is frousled cruelty. all mussed up the wrong
way in fact. so there will be plenty OF it.
The natural hair covers the unnatural
frousle, and then the unnatural matte is
put top like roof. After combing her
hair out the matte wearer parts it from
to ear One-half she brings in front
of her over the face. The other half Is
hanging down her back just as if she were
a girl in song.
She then plunges her hand far back in
the dresser drawer where she hides her
false hair from her husband and brings
forth a crepe. This being properly tousled
and mistreated is placed the forward
bow of her womanly mind. At that stage
she looks like Borneo belle.
But 10. a great transformation Is about
to take place! With both hands she gathers
up the scraggy foreocks and pins the
ends on the crown of her head. Behold
pompadour of much magnifcence. A
comb two assist the hairpins in this
process of art to deceit.
OF the remainder of her hair, which Is
hanging down her back, she forms two
braids falling to right and left. These she
crosses behind and places them in the form
of crown on the chignon She has pre-
viously made.
The factory matte has a great advantage
over the homegrown article. 1t can unite
itself any place 1t wishes, on the side or on
top of the head. while the natural braid
makes an ugly place in the back. where it
starts on its travels.
This new style of hairdressing forecasts
a general style of wearing the hair off the
forehead AS the old pompadour loved to
fall over ones nose. this new kind en-
deavors to get away from it.
The mushroom hats of the present season
are of such peculiar build that when they
are worn far away from the face one must
have a full-heGged false hair emporium to
fill up the space between face and hat brim
1t is unnecessary to say that the pur-
chased matte should match ones hair. You
can't be too particular if you want to save
feelings nothing
about your appearance.
The new matte is good style for women
with little hair or short hair Such a wom-
an boosts up her own struggling locks by