Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Are red-headed women on the in
crease?
It has seemed to some observers that
/ there are noticeably more d-haired
, women and girls TO be seen on the
streets of Washington now than in the
past
Just what this phenomenon connotes
must be left to the anthropClcglstS and
others who profess to study such mat
tiers.
The question occurring to the aver
age man or woman who takes an inter-
est in human nature is simply:
Why 90 redhalred women still wear
green and tan?
Bath rooms and kitchens have
changed colorS but not the clothes of
the red-heads.
They still are wearing the same old
ugly tints the redhaired women of yes
teryear wore, when they might better
be dipping into Dame Fashions Won
derful box OF colors, shades, tints.
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Red-haired gals are so dipping. Of
course, more now than ever in their
eventful history. but they yet remain
shy of reds, blues. oranges, grays and
all@the other colors Or whatever you
want to call ems which their blond
and brunette sisters use so freely.
There is no particular reason why the
girls bleSsed-or cursed, as some think
with locks called red" should not dress
exactly the same as other women.
Neither art nor facts demand it.
Tradition alone is responsible for red
headed women wearing virtual uni
forms. on the queer and mistaken the
DRY that certain colors will not go
with their heads
Why should their heads dictate a
pauCity of color in their clothes?
No, the truth is that red-headed
women are suffering from an inferiurity
complex, in regard to their hair. and
want to cover up as much as they can.
Now red hair is deserving of M such
lf-condemnation. 1t is not UNIQUE,
but shares the good and bad of other
colored hairs. There are pretty red
heads just as there are beautiful
blends; ugly reds, Just as there are
faded brunettes; there are all types and
classes, varying in beauty and ugIiness,
too.
Once we thought we had discovered a
theory in regard to red hair, which en-
abled us to divide them into mean and
KIND persons at sight but experience
IN the land of the living has proved
that this theory is like so many Others.
scarcely practical, and often mistaken,
Inc truth seems to be that neither
color of hair nor any other matter
mas anything at all to do with decency
OF character or its lack There arc
scoundrels of all shades of complexion.
Just AS there are angels. A man or
woman is what he or she is, that is all.
Some of the meanest women have red
hair and some of the sweetest. You
never can tell.
Red-headed girls should forget about
the color of their hair, and dress as
other women do, preferably in the tints
often worn so successfully by vivid
women of such extremes of coloring
as sun-tanned black and blond hair.
These warm tints would do much to
make others stop being ''red-hair con-
scious," and would give the titan
beauty, as the phrase has it, a chance
to dip into that box of Colors we spoke
Of little back Never before in the
history of the world. it is safe to say.
has the dye industry so spread itself.
New and better shades come on the
market every season, with the result
that there is not tint in Nature
arsenal of color which mankind has
not duplicated.
Even neutral shades, such las blacks
and grays. can be worn by the red
head with much success. Black, in
particular, is a fine color" for her
IN uear EveY tho r1IIre blond shows