The Washington times., 1907-03-17

TlHERE once lived man who said
that when he came to choose a
wife he would ask the favored
maid three questions. and upon
these would depend his further atten-
lions. The first was, Do you always
wear your hair the same way?-the sec
ond. Is that way becomingP-and the
third. Is IL fashionable2
Now il may or may not be possible. as
he thought it was. to judge OF character
by the couture, but il is certain that
women quite often expose themselves 10
ridicule and dLsdain by their overNIevo-
ton 20 fashion. 10 the exclusion Of beau
~. Few seem TO realize how much the
disposal OF the hair really has TO do
with the profile, or I'm how great meas
ure the cOunteEance may be affected ny
the couture.
a few years ago the Janice Meredith"
curl was the prevailing mode. and TO
the disgust of the sane-usually masCu-
line-critic. every woman, no matter
what the color of her haiv or the char
acter OF her face. wore that ubiquitous
curl dangling over her left shoulder To
some few il was, Of course. becoming.
but the great majority presented any
thing but a beautiful or classic appear
ance.
AZ this SNas simply an illustration Of
the fact that every woman needs her
own particular style of hair dressing to
bring out the good points. and 10 con-
ceal the bad ones, Of her couutenance.
The arrangement Of the couture should
be an art. not an accident. There are
not even any hard and fast rules to be
laid down in the matter. for each wom-
an must study her own type until she
has achieved the desired effect
Obvious Points Ignored.
Since. however. it is the profile that
is most affected by bad arrangement.
and since. too. beautiful profile
often creates beautiful face. and
vice versa. it is well to give few
general directions for the dressing of
the hair in such manner as TO set off
The profile 20 the best advantage Most
of these rules should. il seems. be OBJ
vious; b"l, Judging by the majority Of
women. they are utterly unknown
In the first place, there are three fca-
lures to be directly considered-the fore
head, the nose and the chin. The cIas-
sic profile. Of course the model of all
later beauties. represented gentle
curve whose apex was the tip of the
nose Anything that disturbs this curve
initiates against classicism Thus. a
prOrudinE chin or a too small nose are
alike unclassical. aud. therefore imper-
feet These are irremediaI defects Of
nature. but other .mpcrfcctions there
are easily traceable 10 a faulty coiTure.
y Dompadour too large for the face,
for instance. or a straight part on a
high forehead. does not by any means
add TO the charm of its wcarer. for il
detracts from the curve,
There is the whole matter I'm a nut
shell, but Illustrations of il are legion.
The untidy arrangement OF the hair in
the Illustration. for instance. shows the
effect Of this style Of coiffure on n face
that was never intended for it-as wit
ness the Improvement worked by the
style Immediately preceding it. See,
too the girl with the severely pulled
back hair. and notice that the bad eff
feet is caused by the combination Of
the style with the high forehead. In
stances might go on forcvcr-cach Of
the Illustrations above shows the re-
suits of judicious and injudiCious hair
dressing on the profile, but the final
proof is found in an examination of the
styles mat no woman can or should
wear. Chief among them is the Dol
ster" pompadour. tightly fastened at
the forehead with invisible hairpine.
The reason for this is plain. it destroys
the curve of classicism. no matter what
the character Of the features. Another
is the agonizingly smooth eXpause
caused by the painful pulling back
from the forehead. and the reason is the
same The third. the happily extinct
bang completely hides the forehead and
annihilates the curve completely.
More completely expressed. the rules
would be: The round, high forehead re-
quires loose part falling over it and
hiding it's prominence; the narrow, high
forehead-a had combination by the
way-neeGs hair parted and pulled on
both sides. the low. narrow forehead. a
rather large pOmpadOUr. a little lower
I'm front than at the sides, and the low
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