The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Vienna Mingles Green Hair With Jazz
ny MARaERY WElLs


 The season for balls in Vienna has just ended. And such ballsi Those who have lived here forever call them but remnants of an old-time splendor. But to the unpracticed eye they look like splendor all by themselves and un- adulterated. But, they are fancy dress either in part or entirely. Always there is that loophole which allows .wom- an to dress in fantastic costume If she hns a mind so to do, and sometimes there is no way for her to escape, for the command is that only ladies whose costumes are of the fancy dress variety will be allowed inside the festive DOT tals. 5tV
 The men almost never indulge in fancy costuming. All of that is left for the ladies, and they do the honors with no reason left for complaint. Sometimes their dresses are of the most modern, not to say decollete sort, and then they will wear masks of the most fantastic varieties masks that carry their design into headdresses; masks that are made from beads and dangles and tassels; masks that are entirely modern art, with black stitches on white to give that scared, inhuman look that the modern artist loves. And all this facial disguise, as you may imagine, IS most amusing when it accompanies frock of the latest style and the best accepted lines. But the trick is that under her mask lady can be much more flirtatious than she could out in the broad light of, day, and this, if she is European, she loves to do.s
 Balls where only the heads of the women are dressed are much the or der of the day, and here again the frocks are new and modern and beau tifuly designed and made. But one makes up one's head regardless. Of course there is a wig, and more ya- rieties of hair and strands that imi- tate hair are seen than. in America, one would imagine to be possible There is pink hair and green hair, blue and tiolet hair, red hair in any and all shades, white hair galore and I have seen a headdress where three colors were combined in the making of one arrangement. Added to all this there is the inevitable band of rhinestones, the crown of silver or gold, the tiara of ~brilliants. There are laurel wreaths in as many colors and more than, are allotted to the SASAASCAtCSt uEC IAODOub that trail and ostrich plumes that float away, wave over the heads, or twine about the thFoats. Always the arrangement is picturesque in the ex- treme and always it does that subtle thing to it's wearer which makes her much better looking than she is in her natural state.
 To appear at one of these balls in her grandmother's party dress is the ambition and the delight of manw a young maiden in this country. One sees laces that are marvellous in beauty and old satins and brocades that might be housed in a famed museum. A modern young lady arrayed in this old-fashioned manner has everything in her favor and she brings to the scene such combination of the old and the new that the effect is one of the most charming in the world. They get out the hoop skirts from the family garrett; they find headgear and scarves to go along with the general ensemble, and the colors that they can achieve by the combination of these various things are most alluring and lovely. :,
 The most of these famous dances are given in the rooms of old and now deserted palaces so that the dancers are surrounded by the tapes