A battle is now raging between the bobbed hair and the long hair styles for fashionable Parisiennes. For the last year, and even longer, bobbed hair has held almost, und 365 puted sway, but now long hair is delivering a powerful counter-offenive which looks as if it might be successful, though of course it would be extremely rash to hazard any prophecy in such matters. The attack on bobbed hair began rather tentatively at Deauville and is now Jgaining ground. No doubt the final verdict will be delivered when the Jcountry-house season comes to an lend and "everybody" is back again in Paris. In its efforts to stave off Jdefeat, bobbed hair is helped by the Jdificulty women experience making their hair look attractive while it is regaining its normal Hiength. The hairdressers, who must have done very well out of the Hbobbed hair craze, seeing how often Madame needed their services to keep her locks at their regulation fiength, are wisely preparing for a change, and are busy making elegant. pastiches and other devices for Jcamouflaging scanty hair while it is being allowed to grow again. In the meantime, ears are re-appearing Jatter a period of complete eclipse, Jand blondes and brunettes alike are thrushing their hair back, An Exhibition of Styles For the very latest ideas about jthe arrangement of hair—a subtle problem, full of intricacies unsuspected by the masculine mind—the up-to-date Parisienne merely has to pay a visit to the second annual ex-(hibition of hairdressing and perted without permission. fumery, just opened at the Magic City, The latest styles and suggestions are shown on numerous busts, some humorous and some beautiful; but which of them will come into favour no man, or even [woman, can foretell. One wonders it will be the fringe, of which various examples, both flat and ceorled, are shown, By this time next year our wives and sisters and daughters' may be covering the upper part of their foreheads with. fringes, thus reviving, no doubt in a modified form, fashion that prevailed some 40' years ago. In the meantime, one cannot help admiring the skill with which the parisien coifeur makes his pastiches. "They are positively an improvement fon nature and an incitement to the indolent to give up struggling with rebellious locks and adopt the wig. Some of the pastiches on view at the exhibition are made of fine copper, gold or silver wire, and some of lustrous silk, which has a very fall-dress aspect. The leading Paris firms have grouped their stands round a life-size Lady Godiva enveloped in her luxuriant hair and riding through the streets of Coventry.
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