Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — COMBS ALL THE RAGE. [ARTICLE]

COMBS ALL THE RAGE.

New Fa»lilon« of Drevsln-j t!ie Hair and the Latest Ornaments. The women who have been fond of dressing their hair with feathers and aigrettes will have to give them up this winter or be hopelessly out of date, for the feathers must go. Combs of all sizes and shapes are the correct head ornaments, so the fashionable jewelers ; and hair-dressers say, and they comein endless variety, so far as material and design are concerned. V There' seems to be a very different wav of arranging the hair for every face, and yet all are stylish. The Woman with dark, glistening locks must wear her hair in the evening after the style of Empress Josephine if she has the face to stand it, and the diamond and pearl tiara which gives the finishing touch to this very fetching arrangement of her locks. If she can’t afford the latter two or three strands of imitation pearls look well wounTl in and out among the dark puffs. Dark hair does not look well too much befrizzled. Crimping causes it to lose its luster, which is brought out by light oranments. Ori the other hand, the woman with yellow or reddish hair should wave it on all sides and puff it up in a fluffy mass-.

Medium-sized tortoise-shell combs ornamented with applied silver are more popular than anything else just now, but they really show off better in light hair than in any other. Black garnet and mat jet combs and hair-pina are being imported from Paris and are already very popular. Many of them come in crescent and butterfly shapes, and are thickly studded with rhinestones. The side combs match, and the effect of these novelties in blonde hair is gorgeous and striking. The silversmiths report a big run on the enameled and jeweled bodies of butterflies. The ornaments have an arrangement at the back which permits of ribbon wings of the color of the gown. The demure maid who clings to her crimpless part and coils her hair very high on her head may thrust one of these butterflies in at the beck of the part and so relieve its severity. She may even jgo further and fill her hair with very small enameled and jeweled bntterfly and flower pins and so obtain an effect altogether Japanese. Few women can afford to dress thefar hair lrrnr on thelr necks, even with the aid of crimps and pnlfs, but those who do must not fail to Bet off the knot with an immense tortoise-shell back comb curving almost froin ear. to ear, if they w ish to be in the very latest style.Toledo Blade.