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Show I AdLRp vNS FRE3ENT GO I r F U RE I I 1"" 1 V nAi BPfShiG1 '""rktt. TT 1 RECENTLY at a symphon' concert I saw enacted a scene that theater fans and concert fans and even stay-at-home fans have been " putting on " since long- bc- !4 fore the days when Joseph Jefferson started taking the " wink-les" out of Rip. But, somehow, at this aforesaid mentioned performance the general shabbiness of the scene got on my nerves. And I said: "If that woman with the ermine trimmed ; evening coat and a costly looking string of pears could sec ! herself as other see her from the seat behind, mebbe she !l would give the back of her head at least one good look before she comes forth in the direction of the waiting limousine." One good look was all she'd need ! " Haven't you, too, sat back of a row of theater fans and wondered why American women will expend so much time and energy and money putting up a fine front with nary a thought to the back coiffure? '; I counted in a row, at the particular performance I speak of, sixteen women and four men. Out of that number of women only three back coiffures were thoroughly tidy look-' look-' ing even. Out of these three only two presented really smart lines of coiffure. The endless line of stray wisps and strag-) strag-) gling locks, inartistic, hard looking knobs of hair, back combs J stuck in regardless of anything but that they stuck, were a J bit disturbing to a soul tuned to things harmonious by the I enchanting orchestral interpretation of some symphonic I poem. I And the point is that they were obviously women who $ didn't have to rush madly home from work and dress hurricd-J hurricd-J ly to catch the train back downt&wn. Their dress and jewels, their good looking opera coats, conveyed the im-! im-! pression of a certain amount of leisure. How different the American woman in this respect from the French woman. The latter dresses so that Nj every detail presented to the person behind is as elegant and faultless as the front view. A smart hairdresser of my acquaintance told me that women will invariably say to her impatiently : " O, let the back go. It doesn't matter whether it is curled or not." Or, " I don't care so long as it is becoming in front." The result is that when a row of such unthinking heads presents itself the picture is not pleasing. Often I have been amazed, at the turning of a head, to find a back coiffure of old and unsmart lines to have for ownership a young, pretty, bright eyed girl. It is funny that women arc as careless as this about, their back coiffure, because the average one of us will do a good deal of mirror gazing, and hemming and hawing, before we decide as to whether the new hat is good looking enough from the back. Much more important it is that the line of hair at the back should not only be free from wayward wisps and locks, but it should be studied to bring out the prettiest contour of the entire back of the head and neck. Squatty, heavy, pudgy, arc adjectives you may apply freely to the heads that look stageward. The malicious result of this thoughtlessness isn't confined con-fined to the back of the head, cither. The face suffers if loose strands of hair hang sloppily from the back. Nothing will spoil an attractive face more surely than this. If a thick, heavy, lincless mop of hair is allowed to just stay pinned together to-gether back there in order that it may be out of the way, yqu can make up your mind that the front is going to give you away, too. I know a girl not especially good looking whose pride has been that of studying the hairdress that looks well both from a back and front view. Her hair is of that nondescript color which some folk call brown and others mouse. In spite of this, her hair is the first tiling you think of when sizing up her assets. Her neck is rather slender and hej cars small and the most charming effect has resulted from her careful and artistic coiffure. Not at theaters alone is an ugly back coiffure an offensive thing. Dances and dinners offer the same opportunity oppor-tunity for the onlooker to study the back of a woman's head. So there is not the excuse of lack of admiration for a well groomed head that vanity demands before she nuts forfV il much effort My best argument I am saving for the last. It is that you can make yourself look years younger or years older by the way you dress your hair. You want to remember that good profile impressions depend upon the way the hair is arranged on the sides, and the sides do not end at the ears, cither. The entire back and sides must be studied to earn admiration from the side viewer as well as the folk behind. |
