The Archive · 1929

Reluctance to Change

The middle-aged woman realizes that she has to thank the shingle for a prolonged, sometimes even. a renewed, youthfulness, She isnot anxious to allow her hair to grow long again.

The crop, it is true, has provided hairdressers with a rich harvest, but there is another harvest which must be reaped by the woman who gives up her shingle. The harvest of hairpins and headaches, and woeful waste of time in her busy life. All this in addition to the Joss of that comes with a cropped head.

Any, woman in the "fascinating forties" will tell you she simply cane not think of coping with long hair—this year! gracefully, who must call in the skirt of the exp If such women consent to wear the tight waist sot-high, what is going to happen?

A complete change in the feminine silhouette and one which seems but ill-fitted to suit the times live 'Experience hax taught us the mistake of repression ubout the waist Tine, We have fought for freedom, we have won it, and are we now to contemplate throwing it away'. "Morzing Post." 5

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