Evening star., 1925-02-22

clung tenaciously to black One new
French Spring hat is described Is be-
ing made Of brightly vanished
straw with a big bow of ribbon set
obliqueIy behind the hat and ribbon
running round the crown in the clas-
sic manner"
T,HE question of the length OF ones
hair Is still important. The
women who for some reason or another
never had their locks shortened want
to know. OF course, If eventually all
women but the freaks are going to
be bobbed or shingled, then they had
better have theirs done even at this
late date. But II, on the other hand,
the bobbed coiffure has seen It's
smartest days, then it 10 best to hold
on to long hair even though for the
time being there is still difficulty in
getting ready-made hats to fit.
AS a matter of fact, nobody knows
just what is going to happen. Even
In France they seem to know no
more about 1T. A Partisan barber
the other day looked troubled when
an American woman, nearing 80,
asked him to cut her hair. At her
age, he tactfully suggested, 1t took
some time for the hair to grow out
again. Perhaps after she had had
it cut she would not like 1t. Then
Ii would be so long waiting for 1t to
grow in again. So that woman came
back to this country with her locks
still long.
OF course, Paris is the center from
which all this bobbing radiated.
Still those who have been in that
city recently are not of the opinion
that bobbing is any more general
there than here. There are conserv-
h. tn
have their daughters keep their hair
long. And one thing that is interest
ing is that while in America the little
girl almost invariably has bobbed
hair, in France little girls usually
have long hair. Many of the smart
little girls that you see in the parks
have their long hair tied with enor-
nous hair ribbons that take the place
of any hat. Nowadays 1t is not un-
usual in France for the little girl to
look forward to the time when she
may have short hair, just as little
girls with short hair here used to
look forward to the time when they
might have long hair like their
mothers.
Meantime the coifreurs are trying
to do something to help the woman
with long hair. They are no longer
simply disregarding her. They
to have her hair arranged in the
mode. Just because she has not had
her hair cut Is no indication that
she has given up trying to keep in
with the fashions.
One new idea is to wear the hair
in q knot just over one ear. To be-
gin with, it is parted at the right
side. 1t is then drawn back, the hair
from the right side being drawn
around the back to meet the hair
from the left side until they meet
over the left ear, where a soft, Sc
cure curling knot is made of the ends
Of the hair. The ears are covered
on both sides.
Some women look smartest when
the hair is drawn up so as to ex-
pose the ears. 1t may be parted
severely In the middle, drawn back
behind each ear and then done up
in knot at the nape of the neck.
Another style of arrangement re-
minds one of the time the girl with
long hair used to wear it in long
braids that were then wrapped
around the crown of the head. Now
the hair is divided into two divisions
and is then twisted into long ropes
which are laid around the crown of
| the head.
Copyright, 1927