In Abeyance While Hats Remain Small Rumour is continually registering the reappearance of Jong hair in Paris, Pictures are shown of it, worn in curls at the back of the head. or on the side of the neck like the heroine of an American film, It is observed that the fashion of brushing the hair straight back from the face and doing it in a low bun. is of all things the most distinguished. But in real life there is a conspicuous absence of all these things. 'At most they may be seen in the hairdressers' shops in Paris waxen beauties whose foreheads are made to suit them and whose activity ies are not such as to disturb them in any way. At the theatre and in the dress salons hair remains short, very short. Here and there are a few women with perfect foreheads and very small heads who are able to wear their long hair with the bun, But they are few and far between and, incidentally, they could wear any form of coiffure, 'There are many' complaints of short hair. The back of the shingle is unprepossessing, especially in the evening. It requires a great deal of attention—far more than was ever implied by the idea of short hair, and it is expensive, compared, that is to say, with no expense at all, But before short hair goes, two things must happen, One i invention of a coiffure which profitable to the barbers as hair; the other is an entirely different kind of hat. As long as hats remain close-fitting and pulled down. over the ears and eyes, anything but short hair is a physical impossibility. A great many women who would have preferred to keep their long hair have found it impossible in view of the difficulty of securing a hat, And hats, far from growing more accommodating, have become even closer fitting this season, They are reduced to the skull-cap with whatever accessories. The head is squeezed into them and there is coly just room for such hair as romaine, Men's hats allow far more of thei heads to show than do women's, and there is more room in. them even though men's hair gener= ally is shorter than women's. There fare, of course, fashions which transcend the best of all possible Tensons, but short of an earth-shattering revolution in coiffures generally there scems.a likelihood rather of baldness as a fashion than the flowing locks of yore—H.
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