1941-06-23 — Page 11

By George MacManus

BUT I'M THE HOST AND THAT'S MY WIFE SINGING + "AWFUL-ISN'T IT?

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

FLATTERING LINES

It may take a good permanent wave and expert fingers to set the hair but any woman with fluffy, fine hair may have, if she desires, a flattering, modern cuif- fure. Just to prove the point, Andre of New York took a model I selected and styled a pompad- our hair-do with a most interest- ing side and back line,

The hair was given a soft per- manent wave and it was not thin- ned. The girl had been wearing it in a long page-boy bob and M.'. Andre left all the length there. Thus length and thickness gave the wave body and he was able to dress it and make it stay where his trained Angers pressed it.

t

Side and back view of a Gibson-Girl Coiffure whith la very soft and flattering for fine hair. Created by Andre of

Richard Hudnut.

Don't wail if your hair is fine. You too can wear it in any style you prefer if you will have patience and go about the pro- blem with a determined mind. In the Arst place don't get

was done in this manner. From ear and set in a thick, high roll cheap wave. Get a good,

the very centre of the head two which extended from the nape of soft wave.

Your hair need not

side parts were made forming a the neck up to the front pom- be kinky

to stay in place. I know triangle. From the centre to far padour. you think that it will slide away right forehead, and from the cen- from its pins if the wave is too tre to far left forehead. All the soft, but that is not so. The trick hair was combed forward bang in dressing fine hair is to comb it fashion and set in small flat curls. so that bulks of it is rolled to- From the centre point a part gether.

was made down the back of the hair in two. particular head dividing the hair-do of which I speak to-day Each side was combed toward the

For instance,

this

Mannequins Go To It

By Beverley Nichols

After the hair was dry Andre brushed the curls out instead of combing them out. "That gives them more body and makes them behave," he explained to me. "I like to set most of the hair in place with the brush, and I use the comb only for the end ringlets across the forehead. I place the thin wire hairpins criss-cross too, then they anchor the hair and it does not slide. Girls with soft hair should do that. They should also set the hair in place at night and wear a net cap over it until the hair has been trained to stay as they wish it to."

Scalp Care Needed

Dally brushing and scalp finger massage helps thin hair greatly. Some women feel that brushing does not help but if they brush every day for a month they would

I never expected that a fashion "falling off," of nerves and fati-see how silly that is. Brushing parade, in times like these, could gue?

be

not only stimulates the scalp but as inspiring as Trooping the Not a bit of it. They were it cleanses the hair of the lint and Colour. But it was.

superbly aloof, calm, untroubled. dust it collects daily. It also dis-

I went for the B.B.C. The par- You'd say that even if a bomb tributes the nourishing oil from ade took place in a luxurious Lon-were to fall on the platform on the roots to the entire length of don hotel. And though some of which they were drifting so ex- the hair which gives it a natural you may have heard the short quisitely, all they'd do would be gloss and makes it more ruly. talk I gave about it, there are to flick of the dust from their Shampoo your half. every two many things one can say in the dresses, shrug their shoulders and weeks but have it set once a week "Daily Sketch" that one can't say walk on.

if it requires it. over the air.

It was a scene which contrasted So here are some of the rea- rather strongly with the fantas- sons why that show was inspir-tic world of Lord Haw Haw's At the moment Paris is unwill- ⚫ing.

imagination, a worid in whichingly catering for an army of

with Firstly, because of the attitude London is Alled

But starving, gigantic German blondes, of the women in the audience, hulf-demented women, rushing when the last of these Brunnhildes That is best summed up by a re-from shelter to shelter clad only sails out of the last dress-salon, mark I overheard from a woman in shawls and boundles of rags. like a defeated battleship, leav immediately behind me.

I asked one of the girls if she ing a trail of bogus marks behind She was watching a mannequin ing in a blitzed city.

didn't find such work rather try- | her, one would imagine that it will take the French designers who was wearing a very lovely

their get dress that might have been call- "Trying?" she said, with genu-quite a long time to

not." eyes back into focus and their ed "Smoke Screen"-a romantic line surprise. "Certainly

certain tape-measures unstretched, affair of black veils and misty, And she added with a clinging draperies.

hauteur "If you're a good man- "I wish I could afford a dress nequin it takes a god deal more like that," she sighed. "Never than Goering to trip you up. I'm mind," replied her friend. "Think much more afraid of Madame X of the douars it'll bring in!"

.. naming a dragon-like Those dresses, you sec, were woman who was hovering in the mostly for export to the States. background.

are

When that time comes, as it surely will, it will be our chance. London's chance. Not that we want to wipe Paris off the map of fashion.

We aren't barbarlans, and we don't claim that sort of monopoly, But we do want to put London on

The women had not come, to Most of all, I was impressed by buy, for very luxurious dresses the girls who weren't there the it. And we're doing so now.

no longer "the thing" in workers behind. the scenes, who "This, in fact, was the sort of this country.

stitched away making these beau-scene, which I should have liked, They'd come to look and to tiful clothes, all through the Dr. Goebbels to sec. give the designers a handh blitz, working just as eagerly as Outside, scarred streets, tin And they seemed just, as if they'd been în a Spitfire fachats, marching troops, the cus- thrilled to think that these lovely tory.

tomary pageant of wartime Lon-

dresses were going to bring in Some of those little fragments don. the dollars” að if they'd been go- of glittering. embroidery had Inside, sweet music, sófi Üghts, ing to wear them themselves, tüken a girl a whole week to beautiful women wearing dresses

Next I was inspired by the make.';

whose very names made impud- mannequins.

You may think that she might ent mockery of the age's alarms I've always had rather "a thing" be batter employed. That isn't names like "Black Out," "Eat about mannequins. They always the way to look at it. For that More Vegetables," Alert." $1 strike me as having most of the sparking frivolity will go over Dusit was falling as I stepped qualities needed for the ideal seas, and will earn dividends of Into the streets. For a little while wifd--poise, infinito patience, dig-gold," which, in their turn, will be it was like being in another nity, pluck.

transformed into vital munitions world, the old world of luxury, and But surely those girls, who'd of war,

gafety and delightful folly. been" "blitzed" "just as much aš Finally, I was inspired by the The music echoed in my head: any of us, who'd spent just as thought that London is not only the colours still glowed in uncomfortable nights in shelters "carrying on" in this way, but is my mind.

surely they'd show signs of actually planning ahead.

Then the sirens went.

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