The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09


Led by the Duchess of Bedford, Lady
Leicester, Mrs. Herbert Asquith, Lady
Beatrice pole-Carew and Mrs. Winston
Churchill, a large section OF English So
ciety has reyolted against the court reg
,ilations that discountenance the wearing
of divided coiffure.
At the present time not one woman
In hundred goes to court wearing ?
parted coiffure for the lord chamber
lain's regulations concerning ladies' head
dress, though they do not directly forbid
the wearing of the hair in this way.
make 1t difficult for a woman to do so
Moreover. no English royalty ever wears
a divided coiffure. and 1t has generally
been understood that Queen Mary does
not wish a lady when attending the eour.
to wear her hair arranged otherwise
than in some of the modes prevailing
among the ladies of the court, when
have not yet included a divided coiffure.
In generals society. however. there has
been a remarkable set toward the court
banned style of head dress, and some OF
the smartest and prettiest women have
lately worn it. Among the ladies in
vited to meet King George and Queen
Mary at tho recent gathering at Wei
beck given by the. Duke and Duchess
of Portland two wore the divided Golf
fude. Permission TO wear their hair in
the mode was asked and obtained from
the royal guests.
One of the most fashionable oolffure
artists in London, in speaking on the
subject said to the writer:
THE fact of the matter is. the divided
coffure, like many other so-called new
notions, is but a reversion to an old one.
Personally think the divided coiffure
Is not becoming. except TO a particular
and somewhat rare type of face. Lady
Beatrice Pole Carew, for example, admit
tedly one of the most beautiful women
in England, has adopted the divided
coiffure. but here is a very rare type
of beauty. and so, too, is that of Lady
Dalmeny, Lord Rosebery's daughter-in-
law. who also has recently worn a Golf
fure divided at the left side
But generally speaking, in my opinion.
the divided coiffure tends to give a hard
look to the face and / do not think IT
will become popular.
"Of late years all the tendency has
been to wear the most deliberately ar
ranged coiffure, and the divided colffure
is sudden effort to go to the other
extreme and arrange the hair on the
simplest lines possible. The divided coif-
fure has certainly the advantage of be-
ing easily arranged, and the lady who
wore IL would save herself considerable
amount of trouble and a great deal of
expense.
Nowadays wealthy and fashionable
ladies' no longer entrust the arrangement
of their hair to their maids. Few ladies'
maids or 'dressers to give them their
modern title, are sufficiently skilled to
arrange an elaborate coiffure. We send
our skilled coiffure artists to hundreds
of ladies in society to arrange their hair
twice a day; for It is usual for a lady to
wear her hair differently arranged in
the day and evening. the evening eoiffure
being much the more elaborate of the
two. We have clients who pay us from
$40oo to 5000 a year for arranging their
coiffures.
But a lady who elected to wear a
divided coiffure could easily have 1t ar
ranged by her maid. II is perfectly sim
pie coiffure and moreover is usually worn
without any ornamentation in the way
of jewels or flowers. But its very cheap.
ness and simplicity will prevent the dil