Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — Hair Dressing. [ARTICLE]

Hair Dressing.

The most natural-looking coiffures are now most stylish. Hair dressers delight in showing the whole of the parting on top of the head, provided the hair is thickly set. A large tress on each side is waved in soft large waves; there is no side parting; the whole mass of hair except the waved tresses is drawn together low down behind, tied there, and allowed to droop in a short thick loop, not braided, and not as long as the Catogan loop. The waved tresses are then brought low behind, and fastened by a short strap made of the ends of the tress. This makes the charming Psyche coiffure, and displays a handsome head finely. It is worn both for full dress and for the street; it is better, however, to braid or rope the loop behind for street wear, as the soft tress loop would soon be disheveled if "worn in the open air; Such coiffures are most becoming to ladies who have the low, broad, Greek forehead, and when nature has not supplied this the hair dresser attempts to do so by adding false waved tresses attached to a white, invisible seam, and covering the upper part of high foreheads. The effect is good usually, and the price of the false front is $lO. Ladies who have not much hair of their own retain high coiffures, as there is much independence in hair-dressing just now. Finger-puffs are massed over the top and back of the head, and soft loops are added behind, so that while the coiffure towers high above the head it is also low behind. Young ladies whose liair grows thickly above the ear, behind it and on the nape of the neck-display its luxuriance by comfiiug it straight upward to a mass of soft puffs or “else crown braids, over which droop tvo small, short, feathery curls. The ornamental coiffure is now tet directly on top, on the left side, or quite in front, but not low behind. This ornament is a cluster of roses or other flowers, or else light, downy marabout feathers, with a heron’s feather aigrette in the center. The chatelaine braid and the low-plaited Catogan loop are worn in the street. A crown braid is worn with the chatelaine; a bow of ribbon or of twilled bias silk ties the Catogan. A fillet of black velvet studded with jet beads is a simple and pl’etty ornament when worn around massive braids. With the present shape of bonnets it is necessary to drag the hair low on the forehead, hence many paste it there in bandolined scallops. These have a stiff', set look, and are becoming to very few faces. It is also necessary that the back hair be soft to fit the new bonnet shapes, and this has had the good effect of doing away with the jute and topsies once used for filling and bringing real hair into use.— Harper's Bazar. - .