Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1914 — Beautiful Lines in a New Coiffure [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Beautiful Lines in a New Coiffure

i COIFFURE which deserves more A than a passing notice even by experts in matters of hair dressing, is pictured here. It is, in fact, the achievement of a specialist and its beautiful lines and apparent simplicity proclaim it as such. Many women find themselves erowned with a fairly heavy growth of hair which will not for some reason grow long. A coiffure like the model shown here exactly fits such a case. Only a portion of the hair is waved for this style; that is, the hair which frames the face, and it is not waved excepting as it is near the face. The hair on the crown is combed smoothly over it. To accomplish this effect, which is that of a coronet about the face with a mass of smooth long puffs at the back, the hair is combed in a small pompadour before it is waved. At any riate this is the procedure which the amateur will find to be the easiest way. Professional hair dressers have the knack of “marceling” the hair into waves that will arrange themselves evenly, before the pompadour is adjusted.

When the front hair has been arranged the ends (if they are long enough) are rolled into puffs and pinned into place across the back of the head as shown in the picture. But if the hair is too short there is nothing to do but provide extra puffs that may be pinned on. The puffs in this coiffure which I illustrate are noticeably long. Some people object to the use of false hair in any case, but a little of it is very often necessary to make a successful hair-dress. No one seems to discover any harm in a falfee tooth if one is needed, or in a glass eye, which is far more evidently artificial than hair. So long as it is not overdone the woman with too scant locks will show her good sense by helping out her coiffure with extra pieces such as puffs or a switch. When the hair is combed in a small pompadour, as it is in this picture, it may be arranged so as to have a light fringe over the forehead, or a short part. The face is softened by waves or ringlets made of the short “stray locks” which grow about the forehead.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.