1939-04-03 — Page 16

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1939

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY -

Gay Nineties Make Current Fashion Appear Simple!

From the archives of one of the leading scalp specialists, The Ogil-

These fashionable young women took great pains to keep their elaborate colffures in place,

If you are one to complain about of a hair dresser, tried their luck the new up-swept coiffure, you at home. Long hair was curled need only glance at these elaborate over cbony sticks (about twenty hair dressings of the early "nine-inches in length) which were heat. could a jitterbug keep her berib the scalp through exercise, daily

boned topknot in place? ties" to be convinced that you ed in the oven. And the smartest

massage and brushing of the hair;

have not begun to experience "hair | of the thrifty belles achieved

The serious scalp conditions corrective diet and the banishment which resulted from these foolish of transformations or toupees. fussing"!

"crimps" by braiding their hair

customs were after moistening it with quinco

treated haphazard- Quite naturally the very elab- ly. "Spirits" were applied to the orate coiffure disappeared. Tho seed lotion, and then pressing the

oily scalp, and "ointment" to the more modern permanent waves ap-. braids on a board with a hot iron! dry scalps. No brushing, no scalp |peared and women took to "bob- A cloth covered the hair to protect

massage, no neck exercising and bing" their heads in order to care it from scorching and discolouring!

muscle relaxing!

for their hair more intelligently. Not until 1918 at the time of And even with the current vogue the big influenza epidemic, did wo-for longer hair, there is no excuse men begin to listen to the teachings for indifferent care of the scalp. of the more modern authorities on Science has taught us what hair scalp care. Among the very first needs to be a "crowning glory" and were the Ogilvie Sisters who pre-it is up to women to protect this ached the need for blood supply to allure through daily beauty routine.

ALL FOR BEAUTY

vie Sisters, I culled these amusing hair-dos which swept fashionable

females off their feet about 1890.

Curious were the customs of the day when

it came to caring for

the hair. Crimps, as you see, were

Patrons of a beauty salon were

in vogue. They were

cautioned not to brush their very much created by pressing the hair be- waves, for fear or ruining them, tween two hot irons which were and in order to keep their costly heated over a charcoal stove, and coiffures unharmed, women slept. to keep from burning the beauty's at night with their heads tightly scalp, a resting gadget was placed bound in caps and "stays," and

under the irons.

during the day held their heads

stiffly. The glide waltz was a

necessity of the times

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not or would not afford the services

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