The Washington times., 1913-08-04
NEW CO|FFURE WILL
RE|NTRODUCE RATS
''Wet Dog" Style Of Hairdress-.
ing To Be Followed BY Reg
uIar Pyramid Effect. . - ..t

Ever since the time when the cave
girl bound up her long. fiowin locks with
thorn, thus achieving what was the
| first attempt at doing up the hair.
/ girls and women all over the world
have been concerned in the latest style
of coiffure. .,-
The Kaffir maiden, who by hook or
crook gains possession Of a string Of
beads, with which she bedecks her
kinky locks, the Indian girl Of the far
West-the first American beauty-who
! adds a handful of dyed feathers to her
headdress, the girl Of civilization who
places an aigrette torn from the breast
of the snowy heron in her 'hair-an are
Impelled by the same impulse-to add to
the crowning beauty which Mother
Nature gave them, hence the minated
bank accounts of the hairdressers and
hair manufacturers. ..s.s.r r'..-.S s
The present season has seen a won
derful change in the method Of doing
up the hair. The bouffant pompadour,
built up out of rolls, rats, transforms
tions, or whatever the woman could
find that would prove sound and per-
manent substructure for that hideous
roll that topped the head OF fair feIni-
ninity, has vanished 1t only exists
nowadays out In the backwoods-far,
far from the maddening crowds. and
upon the stage in plays such as The
Widow" Elsewhere IL has fallen into
disrepute, and the wet dog" style of
hair-dressing is the vogue. ''..
sLike Cubist's Dream.
The name describes the fashion.
plunge into the water, one is treated
he might be were he to be deprived
of that covering with which nature
saw fit to cndow him. The wet
Dog" coiffGre serves the same pur-
pose. 1t would give a phrenologist a
happy half hour to read the bumps"
that this new style of hair dressing
discIoses, for it leaves the top and
hack of ones Uranium, completely
exposed.
The new style OF coiffure is a cross
between a cubist's dream, and the
impressionistic style Of Rembrandt.
1t shows corners and edges instead
of waves and curls. 1t is flattened TO
the head by means of Invisible nets
and countless hairpins, and ii is be-
coming to one woman out OF every.
hundred thousand. Nazimova is the
one shining example of the woman
who can wear this style of coiffure
with success
This style however. will not remain
the vogue except for a short time
prophesies Miss Katie Dunn, who. has
Just returned from a business trip to
New York and Atlantic City. where
she investigated the latest styles Of
hair dressing
1T doesn't matter in the least" says
Miss Dunn, that you have only Just
succeeded in getting your hair to lie
down fiat, or that you have only be-
come accustomed TO the strange,
slick look Of your physIognomy. FOR
fashion has decreed that there is to
be radical change. 1t is to be worn
high once more"
Hair that was coiled so low on the
neck that II required all the will power.
TO say nothing of hairpins, that one
possessed, 10 keep II from tumbling
down the back, is now to be built up
from the crown OF the head-not thar
mountain of puffs that was SO fashion,
able a season or two ago, but a combi-
nation OF the Grecian psyche and the
exaggerated Elizabethan. with a slight
suggestion of the Japanese-the influence
Of the present day costumes.
New Japanese Couture.
The style has struck New York with
full force. and at all the spring open
ings in Paris the mannequins appeared
with their hair piled extremely high.
It gave a length to their faces which
was decidedly becoming. The woman
with the long, lean countenance must
beware of this style, but 1t is wonder
fully becoming TO the girl or woman
with plump cheeks .-...
This new style of hair dressing will
necessitate a rat. Yes, rats are, coming
back but the new ones are not like
the old ones which went entirely around
the head. The new psyche rats are circ-
uIar and resemble nothing SO much as
an old-fashioned cruller-the kind that
mother used to make, with hole In
the center.
An the hair is gathered together and
brought through the hole, then II is
divided into two strands, and these are
colled about the rat on either side, and
new psyche may go. provided IL Is be-
coming and the tresses are not, scant.
The style Is directly responsible for
the appearance of the Greek filet and
bandeau, both of which will be worn
extensively, especially I'm the evening.
Bandeailx are Of black velvet, and
fiIets are of flexible wire. upon which
pearls or brilliants are strung.
The woman who is not member Of
tba Audubon Society will get the effect
bv wearing aigrettes and birds of Para
disc. Recently. at fashionable thea
Ter in Paris. the women Of the audi
ence were stunned when they were ask
ed by the management 10 remove-not
their hats. but their lofty. hair Jerma-
paents as well.
Miss Dunn brought back with her