The Archive · 1924

The Craving for Something New

One of the Into converts to the shaven and shorn yanks admits that she did it simply for the sake of finding a new sensation.—She had heard so many recitals of the pangs of the fatal moment when the shears of Atropos crunched through cherished tresses that she coveted the experience for herself. So she took the fatal plunge, adjusted herself to her cropped head pecdily and finally accustomed her friends to it as well. So far so good. But finally bobbed hair, once viewed as during became conynonplace. What next?

The shingle opportunely arrived to fil that LGw, And then another, for one shingle differeth from another in out and curl, Now the modes of the Directoire are me fluencin: the arrangements of tresses and feminine Lord Byrons shake their hyacinthine locks. all this in the day ime of course, for short hair is becoming somer for "sports wear," as it were and the ultra fashionable must have their extra braids and curls which Jove as frankly applied as the om. ni present lip-stick.

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