Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — GOOD MODEL FOR OPERA COIFFURE AND HEADDRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD MODEL FOR OPERA COIFFURE AND HEADDRESS

THE attempts to introduce extremely elaborate and intricate styles in hair ornaments did not meet with a great success in this country. American women will not go to great lengths in this direction, as they have demonstrated many times. Just whether any of them will follow the startling fad, which one runs across in Paris, of having the hair to match the costume, remains to be seen. No one with any judg‘

ment would be quite so foolish, it seems. Elaborate enough and very pretty is the headdress shown here, in which a crest of feathers fastened with an ornament is attached to a stiffened band of velvet which fits about the head. ( The feathers in the original model were those of the Paradise bird, but

these feathers are going out of use on account of the new law against their importation. There are plenty of beautiful domestic feathers, and plenty of ostrich plumage which may be substituted for the Paradise. A jeweled ornament fastens the feather crest to the band. The hair is combed down about the face and neck, and left plain on the crown. Short, loose puffs or coils, or curls, pinned into place, give the effect of short hair with curling ends. This would be an excellent style for women who have thick but short hair, and is pretty with a plain band of velvet about the head, for everyday wear.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.