London, May @1.
How to do our hair, is the most anxious question of the moment. Confusion was caused by. the electrifying appearance of the, Duchess of Kent at the ostrich feather show at South Africa House, of which I spoke last week, wearing her hair in the drooping page-boy bob which was Popular last year but now was thought to have quite gone out. However a discreet word went round from Belgrave Square that the page-boy bob was only transient due to the fact that the Duchess is having her portrait painted; and that "when this tyranny is over-past," she will lead the fashion in an Edwardian revival.
The essence of this is that the hair is swept straight up the back and off the sides of the face, and is piled on the top in rolls and side curls, with a comb as a sort of central belaying pin, Some of the papers have been reprinting pictures of the lovelies of 1904 and thereabouts. Certainly the hair piled up in undulating gleamy masses is a very beautiful feature; one understands St, Paul's admiration for this glory of woman, though generally speaking his opinion of women was low and not a credit to him, But to make a proper show in this style you need a lot of hair, and most women Haven't got nearly enough. It will suit some, the enviable sort whom anything suits, but by no means all. Also Edwardian coiffures seem to need the Edwardian atmosphere, that something in ourselves which, once gone, cannot be recaptured by any amount of dressing up.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.