The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-11
THE NEW BOB
By IMAGERY WELLS

What are you going to do with that bob that you so gayly acquired this time last year? Your face is falling? You do not know? Oh. cheer up. There are lots of little tricks that will jack it right into the lmelight Of modern fashion, but it must be thought out and re-cut and attended to or it looks as passe as the last leaf left on last summers tree.
 Bops no longer are allowed to fly up in the air and out in the breeze totally in an unrestrained manner. No, indeed, The bob Of today is a restrained affair. It is held within bounds. It goes the way it's mistress tells it to go. It is not nearly so free and spontaneous as it was year ago.
 Haven't you seen, just recently, somebody in last years bob who looked as though something was radically wrong with the fashionable equipment? Bobs as they were do not go with the newer clothes. that's all there is to it. They are wrong. dead wrong. They are much too careless
 
 thought out lines of the newer frocks. They are out of harmony with the longer skirts and the more for maj designs of our clothes.
 However, girls have learned to like short hair. and they have de- veloped certain notable resistance against letting their hair grow. It is too easy to take care of the way 1t is. It looks too well when they roll out of bed in the mornings. Gone are the stringy looks that once hung about their faces at this period of the waking day. They have found this new. good thing and they are going to cling to 1t if the hairdressers will only help them out a bit.
 Well, the hairdressers are doing that and most consistently, too. They have evolved ways and means that are particularly lovely. A girl with a bob, hating tC lose it, will try one of these new coiffures, and, as by a miracle, she will see herself in the glass looking more lovely than ever she thought she could look. She likes the new thing better than she did the old and still she has her own short well-groomed hair. easy tC wash, easy to keep in order, never in her eyes always well kept look- ing.
 One of the ways is to have the bob curled down. The curls just must go down this season. The waves are large and far apart and when the hair dressing is done the effect is something like the hair Of the girl in 1 the picture. Could anything be love- Her looking? She is right in style her head looks well with all the modern al l,, s.I,. hair fits In to the general scheme of things.
 Another trick is to have made a nice long switch just the color Of your own hair It is possible that you have enough hair left over with which to do this. Take this switch and wind it about your hair in a coronet band. letting the curls of your bob peep out beneath it. This coiffure gives the quaintest and most womanly of expressionsfto your face and it goeE so superlatively well with the full long skirts and the tight bodices of the newer gowns. The girls discovered the becoming ness of the style when they wore ribbon bands about their heads at parties this winter and then some bright one thought of the extra fortable, remove the switch and put
 it away on the shelf and you have your nice and easily handled short ! locks still with you.
 A plan for using bobbed hair with switch is to comb the short locks straight back from the face and at the nape of the neck to roll around the strands of the switch. Then stick comb into the knob of switch and you have complete and ultra smart coiffure.