The Archive · 1930

Coloured Hair Fashionable Paris, Dee, 27

All that the hairdressers of Paris will allow in the way of a compro tinge, in a year when everything is getting longer, is a scant tuft of two-inches mote of hair, Dressmakers did not wait to be begged to lengthen dresses to the ankles again, but_ hairdressers fought off a real offensive and ro fused to order tresses back agai The most they will allow the well-dressed woman is an extra two-in~ ches of hair, to be curled up and tucked out of sight.

Tu the absence of the famous One tome, who is now In America ona mission in the interests of the capiltary science the Figaros of Paris have agreed to follow the infleunco fof longer skirts by snipping off the hair with two inches more to spare.

Wigs are smart again, but they. must be wigs of your own hair and they must be coloured in a pastel tone, Paris coiffures have evolved a science of taking your own hair, bleaching it white with acids, and them toning it any colour they want, Tt is very smart, for example, if your hair is grey to wear a mauve wig to the opera, Or if your hale happens to be rei, wear a green wig. But when you get home, leave your wig on the umbrella stand, for the attempt to Munch the fashion of wearing wigs to bed was short lived.

There seems to be a craze to wear your hair anyway except as Nature: intended it. There has never been such a craze for colouring of hair, land never have young women been 50 wild to have white hair as to-day.

Tt is considered ultra-chie to have pretty head of white hair, and is not uncommon in the most famous salons of the Champs Elsée and Saint Germain quarters to see girls barely out of their teens with gray Tt all comes out of a fow chomical bottles, and these gray headed youngsters will have green locks or blue within a few weeks if the: whims of fashion swing that way. Nothing is so unsettled as the colane or length of women's hair this winte er—United Press,

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