SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930.
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PRE-WAR STYLES.
The Doom Of Short
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The International Hairdressers' Congress has just taken place in Vienna, and, as such international gatherings usually do, it concluded with a solemn resolution.
After careful and conscientious deliberation the assembled hair- dressers decided, to resolve:-
That it has become Impossible to wear short hair, be it bobbed or shingled, with the long dresses ordained by the present fashion in women's wear. Hairdressera in all countries will now, presumably, recommend their clients to grow their hair. To the indignant young woman who will explain, with a shrug of
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I fault of the dress designers.
At the congreas one intellectual delegate pointed out that short hair had been in accordance with the revolutionary period which set in after the war, while the present tendency all over the world was reactionary. Kings and dictators were returning.
A Dying Mode.
The fashions of the pre-war period, and even of the last century, had again been adopted. Hairdressers would be swimming against the current of the time if they attempted to maintain the dying mode of short hair. Another speaker was passionately advocat- ing that the hair-dressers should advise their clients to remain falth- ful to the bobbed or shingled head.
When short hair was first launched after the war, it was a symbol for the liberation of
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A women, a symbol of a new time, of definite break with passing fashions. The pioneers of the bob had always maintained that it was a definite reform, not a "vogue, B definite proof for the victory of common sense.
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Women were in the middle business life. They were active in all sports, and were too busy to spare the time for long hair. By adopting the resolution, said the speaker, hairdressera would betray the best interests of their female clients.
Symbol of Freedom.
Women had already capitulated
to the designers of long skirts. If
they would definitely abolish short hair in consequence of the con-
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Mirrors.
When a few notably beautiful women consent to appear in a costume pageant, wearing weird and wonderful raiment, the result is always entertaining.
Mrs. Alexander McCorquedale) scems to be the dress designer "par excellence" for this kind of attrac- tion, all in the good cause of charity. and again her talent was offered for the pageant which was the chief at- traction of the "All Hallowe'en Ball," at the Park Lane Hotel, Lon- don, on October 31.
From Other Lands.
In seeking to trace the origin of the old superstitions on which we have been brought up, there is ample proof that other countries than our own have traditions which would make the "origin" of certain quaint | customs their
own. Yet we have always believed them to have foundation in an old Britain?
This decided the organisers against issuing a programme" "ön which the original stories of the superstitions might have been re- peated, to be treasured да a souvenir.
Broken Mirrors.
The Countess of Carlisle consent- ed to lead the parade of Super- atitions in a most becoming black velvet gown glittering with mirrors
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Lady Hamilton Grant was called upon to wear a novel dress, mostly in white American cloth, to repro- sent "Upsetting the Salt."
"Crossed Knives" WAS a little easier with the silvery-grey medium which Mrs. McCorquodale used ba fore in dressing the "Cutlery" coa- tume of last season, and a magni- ficent gown was the lot of Mrs. Evan Morgan.as "Opals.”
Mrs. Roland Cubitt, who had much to do with this ball, was the "Three Candles,"
super-
the origin.
an
uncommon
gress resolution, then the symbol to support and save the bob and tional Shoe and Leather Fair, stition, of which few appear to know for their new freedom would have the shingle in the interests of their which opened recently at. gone, an important achievement feminine clients.
Last year Agricultural Hall. would have been lost, and in spite The vote was taken amid terrific
of the vote women would again be excitement and the result announc-shark-skin shoes were suitable only unfree. They would once more be ed amid deadly silence. Eighty- for heavy country wear. The now dependent on small chivalrous ser-four delegates had voted for, and shoes are as soft and comfortable vices of men and hindered in all twenty-one against, the resolution. as the finest kid. The surface is modern business pursuita.
Death sentence on short hair like a close layer of tiny pin-heads.
Another delegate seconded the had been passed.
apposer by declaring that fashion designers and cloth manufacturers hád a real practical interest in ad- vocating long dresses which would: But enable them to earn more. the earnings of hairdressers were on the whole independent of whe- ther short or long hair was adopt ed.
The profession, he said, should utilise this fortunate independence
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SPANISH TREND,
It is dyed in attractive shades, and is said to be perfectly rain- resisting.
Reptilo-skin shoes in black, bulrush and nightingale-brown are also popular, and though Russian a boots have quite disappeared, the rubber Wellington remains in favour, in rede, blues, greens and At a famous dress salon where other colours to match bright- beautiful women always, congre-hued mackintoshes.
A correspondent writes in Home paper of November 3:-
gate I noticed last week three very good-looking sisters discussing clothes. An were wearing the very new semi-Spanish looking winter coats of cloth,
The Marchioness of Anglesey had chosen blue with a collar of blue fox. Lady Violet Benson was wise in insisting on a distin- guished black, with Persian trim- ming, whilst Lady Diana Daff- Cooper selected beige with a col- Iar of silver badger.
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Lady Keeble was another band- asthe woman 'busy debating which Bulted her bea a "clever" beret or a Spanish hat, both in black, assisted by one of those gally coloured - scarves she so often affecto.
As usual, the beret gained the day. There is so much character nan ingeniously designed baret. No wonder women love the style. I also noticed Lady Joan Verney,
| naturally. Interested in clothes, as her daughter is marrying early next year.
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