Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — IMPORTANCE OF HEAD DRESS [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANCE OF HEAD DRESS

Elaborate Coiffures Must Accompany the Toilettes of Today—Paris Fashions Mostly Copied. France may be said to have led in the matter of coiffures and head dresses these many centuries.—L Two and three generations ago American women-often borrowed thqir style in coiffures;and ooiffure ornamentation from France, and today tho same thing happens; The history of head dresses in France would fill, and indeed does fill, a thick volume, and there are no more interesting records in the world of dress than those which deal with the stylos in ornamenting the hair, styles which were Influenced by events, personalities and lines of thought. And Influenced also by position in life, of course, for the levelirig process which makes fashion open to all now was not in progress centuries ago.

Today the hair plays a more important part than ever in the toilette, and any ornamentation of its is to display, rather thaq hide it, so an elaborate coiffure is crowned with jeweled pins or soft plumes for the express purpose of calling attfention to its beauties. Yet eccentricity is not lacking in the latest head dresses, as, for instance, two fanlike ornaments of sprays sprifaging from jeweled pins fastened to a velvet band. Or a cluster of plumes waving from a slender jeweled stick set in the front of the coiffure, which is further decked wtih a black velvet ribbon. Many of the aigrettes are worn over the brow at the moment, but some prefer them set down at the side and rising from a narrow gemmed fillet.