The Archive · 1920

BOBBED AGAIN

More and more girls are getting their hair bobbed again; some for fashion's sake, some for beauty, some in the hope of strengthening locks which under war stress have grown lank and thin.

"Bobbed hair has come to stay"—said a well-known barber to me—not as x fashionable coif, but merely on the grounds of common-; sense. There are still so many jsirls working at outdoor—occupation that it's the most sensible coin that can be devised to stand wind and weather. Also it looks most attractive in the even-he right. kind of woman.

he added, "tall women would avoid bobbed hair, all would be well—they aren't in the least suited to it. It is a fashion pure and simple for the petite.

"As for the boudes,' curls, and fluffs we ate always threatened with the coming fashion—they are-at all worn—except, of cour the side curl, which is so becoming: {that there is small wonder it is More Popular than ever, "The smart woman likes a neat coiffure with nothing exaggerated about it. It shows well-kept hair te perfection, and makes the head look neater and smaller."

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