The Archive · 1929

Long Hair for the School Girl

When It is Fashionable to Grow Your Hair you are fourteen it rather fashionable just now to grow your hair.

Schoolgirls tell their elders tha!

"Anyone under twenty: five can afford to grow her hai The result is a certain amount of long hai which, as a rule, is tied in very tightly at the nape of the neck to give a more or less shingled effect in front.

Tu the terests of neatness, which is still in demand, slides are used where necessary, and sontetimes, if the kind of hair' per-"tail" consists of two very.

age curls. This method of} hairdressing is, of course, only possible very light, dry, and not too thick hair.

Formerly the elders used to set the pace in matters fashionable, and the "young lady" of the period took to her first pow-in more recent times, to her first pads an brilliantine when she came out. The crisis comes now when the long hair has to be turned

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