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Show VOGUE OF THE RED HAIRED ONE An Auburn Tinge Now Sought in the Coiffure. (New York Sun.) "Red hair has always been held to indicate indi-cate a quick temper, but beyond that the students of the past did not go; or if they did, they kept the result of their studies to themselves. Recently psychologists and thinkers have been finding out many interesting things about the red haired woman the most interesting, if true, being be-ing that, as a type, she was dying out. Another theory advanced by a learned western professor was that all blondness indicated disease, and that the kind producing pro-ducing red hair was the most malignant. All ot this demonstrates surely that the red haired woman is growing in interest and is being talKed about, wnereas twenty twen-ty years ago a girl with red hair was considered con-sidered severely handicapped in the race matrimonial. At that time the golden haired blonde was admired to such an extent that about every other woman sought to gild her locks. But the reaction was violent. The bleached head became a blight, and even in the chorus it was frowned upon Nowadays Now-adays the girl with designs upon the front row lets her hair grow naturally, and if she possesses a red crown she fluffs it out conspicuously and applies confidently for a place. For it is the stage that has made the fashion, just as it makes many others It came about with the almost simultaneous simultane-ous success of two women stars and the' appearance in New York of a French vaudeville singer whose locks were a most brilliant red.. Up to this period, decidedly red and naturally na-turally red hair .had not been deemed a charm in the making of a heroine. But now it created attention. Just as the scrawney girl of ten years ago has become be-come the willowy type that is the correct thing today so the red haired woman is the acknowledged type of beauty. 'It is a fact," said a Broadway hair dresser, "that the fashion for red hair i?t voguf- at "resent, but I doubt if it will be a lasting , one beyond, say, two seasons. . "Whatever may be the artistic fashion or the moment and no matter how it may bring money to our place, we cannot help having our own ideas and we place fine golden hair first. "But red hair and the really golden hair are almost equally scarce, and the reason we prefer the eolden haired woman is undoubtedly un-doubtedly that in our experience with her, she is easily pleased, gentle and always al-ways beautiful, according to the usual standards. "The red haired woman may be. subtly farina tincr and. a.u that.', but the hair- dresser is not apt to be impressed with her charm of manner, for she is always intensely in earnest, as to the exact angle at which she wishes her hair, and wnat she wills she insists on having done. "We never try to reason with a red haired woman as to what is the prevailing prevail-ing style or what she should have in the way of arrangement. She always knows her own mind thoroughly and you cannot change it. . "Other women, the brown haired and the golden haired kind, will ask suggestions, sugges-tions, naturally, as to what is the prevailing pre-vailing style and will welcome suggestions sugges-tions as to any new fad that may be m vogue. ' "Red hair is apt to be artistic. That is, it is fluffy and easily controlled. It arranges ar-ranges itself and even in a rainstorm H never hangs straight. "Women are coloring their hair today more than thev ever did before, but they are not bleaching it. Every brown coloring color-ing that is used has a t'nge of auburn in it and some women insist on having tne auburn predominate, for the reason that this touch of red in the hair" lights up the skin and eyes prettily if it is not overdone. over-done. . j "Women who wish to have their hair turneu to the actual reu snacie are many. ' but we do not encourage tnis idea, ior tne unnatural red nair is extremely trying try-ing to most faces and except upon the stage, under the calcium, it never can pass as a natural growth. "The brown shades just touched with red are, on the-contrary, very beautiful and impossible to detect. Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Langtry and others first made this shade of hair fashionable just at the time when the gold bleached hair was losing its novelty. "The trouble in producing the color of natural red is not in the hair itself, but in the fact that with such hair the skin is always transparent, the eye lashes and brows are an exact match, and even the coloring matter of the eyes is peculiar to this type. , "We do a great deal of theatrical work, and I can tell you in confidence that in half a dozen new theatrical ventures for next season the leading woman has chosen to have red hair. "There will be a rage for red haired heroines he-roines next season, and no doubt there will be many discoveries as to the peculiar pe-culiar temperament that goes with this complexion. I have heard it said that red haired women are very fiery in temper and very imperious, but it is also said that they are the most constant of women, wo-men, great flirts, but not to such an extent ex-tent as to endanger their husbands' happiness. hap-piness. "Red haired women are of a very nervous nerv-ous temperament and are not inclined to grow fat. They are apt to be gifted in some artistic way, but above all, to be excellent managers. The head dominates the heart to an extent that makes the red haired woman mysterious to her admirers. admir-ers. They never quite understand her. "I am not giving these opinions as my own, understand, but some time ago in my study of coiffures 1 came upon a chapter devoted to the red haired women of history, and these were some of the facts cited. "That the type Is growing rarer there Is no doubt. Just watch .some day as you travel about town in the streets or on cars and you will notice not one red haired woman in ten. You may see plenty of dark hair with the auburn tinge, but I am speaking of the natural red blonde with white skin, light brows and lashes above pale-blue, grayish, sometimes greenish eyes. "There will be one year of red haired heroines on the stage, and then the audiences au-diences will begin to show the red haired woman in plenty. They will hardly essay es-say the bright red shades, but the auburn au-burn coloring in the brown hair will be pronounced, and by degrees the color will grow common. "Then the fashion will be dead and women will go back to their own natural colorings." |
