The Archive · 1937

HAIRDRESSING

Some of the hairdressers of New York have prepared an entirely new coiffure silhouette although it seemed as if every possible nair-do had been fried. The new idea is to do away with long hair falling about the nope Of the neck and to brush it up in back and set it in soft curls that do not hang below the natural hair line. One coiffeur likes to draw the hair upward sharply over the ears, giving a sort of modified Gay-Ninety pompadour effect. He says that tight sausage-rol curls are no longer the mode, thatthe hair should look more naturally curly.'

This business of piling the hair atop the head allows for all sorts of ingenuity in arranging it there. Tg you have a handsome widow's peak and a well-shaped forehead, you Can slick your hair back from the temples and frame them with curls set back on the head. The effect is most dramatic when arranged with-Out a parting, with waves or loose curls running from side to side across the top of the head.

One hairdresser has moved his shop to the top of a building where he can have natural dayfght, pouring through skylights, in which to try the effect of his hair colourings. In this way his customers run less risk of having a tint that, while it may look beautiful under artificial light, seems plain crazy in the bright out-of-doors.

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