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Show 1 SUB f 0 I J By ROSA j mimi i X aaaaaaaaaaa'aaaaaaaaaaaa Artistic Bobbing THB barber shops were the first bobber shops. The girl's Idea was to get a hair cut, to get rid of the old-style switch and be a flapper. Wltb young girls, the set of cropping the mop of hair was not so bad, since a vivacious manner and a sweet face can get along without woman's crowning crown-ing glory. ,4. But when women as well as girls sought the shears and the balr began to fall In all directions, what was all right wltb golden locks was not so good wltb gray, and something bad to be done. The bob must not take away from a woman's beauty, but must leave It as It was, or perhaps Improve and enhance It That has been the problem of the bob. ' The proper caper for the hair cutter cut-ter Is to make the bob add to and not subtract from the beauty of the bead. The head? Tea, for It was that Important Im-portant portion of feminine anatomy which was often loet to view with the old-style coiffure. People knew that a woman had something on the top of her neck and then there was the pretty face, but the sculptured bead was not in It with the wig. When a modern woman decides to let ber balr go the way men did when they came out of the woods, she Is only like an Oriental dame who slings her, veil Into the discard. If she really does that Both women feel Hint they want to move about without any disguises dis-guises and away go veil and switch, to say nothing of -hatpins and hairpins. hair-pins. That's the woman who has snlifed the air of freedom. A Greek goddess like Venus or Diana looked different from a French or English queen, if we may Judge by their pictures, and It's the Grecian type that we are Imitating today. This means that there must he form as well as face, the whole bead end not merely eyes and II pa A woman who Is bobbed may look strange for a while,, but she doesn't have that top-heavy appearance of the dame of olden days. The bobbed head has the power to suggest that s womao Intends to use her head and not merely wear it for adornment When a girl has trim locks under her closely fitting cap and isn't all decked out like an arbor of trailing arbutus, she's bound to give the Impression Im-pression that she has something under un-der that hat something more than balr. Artistic bobbing will bring out the Idea that a girl has something more on her mind than a switch and that she has as many Ideas as her mother bad puffs. Decollete, by Day WHEN you see a girl with bare arms at 8 a. m.. you think she's coming borne from the ball, but as a matter of fact she's Just going to business. That's one of the signs of the times. It makes Father Time adjust ad-just his bl-focals. It's the Nouveau youth. Now this decollete stuff Is only democracy showing Itself at elbows and knees. It means that the flapper Is crashing the gate and breaking down the barriers between the lady and the shop girl. Time was, you know, when It was only women of the Fonr Hundred who used the bathing suit costume, and then It was after dark. Time Is when any girl can rig herself up In decollete and turn the office Into a ballroom. Women are naturally expressive. Let's put It that way. So a girl who may not be a cloak model or bathing beauty still wants s chance to reveal what beauty she has, along wltb the vaccination mark. A woman may conceal con-ceal her mind, but she makes up for this by showing her neck. I know that the professors who like to figure things out in dollars and cents tell os that lack of sleeves and trains mean that woman wants to economize In dress materials. It was the war, they say, that made 'em economical. eco-nomical. But economy was never a girl's maiden name. A girl may save a little lit-tle on food, especially If she's getting fat hips, but she won't economize on dress. So It Isn't economy In woman that makes her make a whole frock out of a scarf. It's the elemental within her. Woman Is primitive, that's all. This may sound like rough stuff, but It's what every woman knows. It's all right for men to be civilized, for they built all the cities, but woman doesn't care much about that sort of thing. Look at a girl who throws off the coat of fur which once kept some wild beast warm. See the display of arms and shoulders. Now, Isn't she s sweet ringer for some female ancestor who was togged out In the same way, minus the talcum powder? The Jazz costume of the day Is a sign of the times. It shows that women wom-en bave broken wltb tbe past and gone back to nature for s fresh start Unharnessed youth Is tbe thing today. to-day. But this Isn't only a lack pf garters gar-ters and corsets. It's freedom of mind as well as body. It may bave been the war, but 1 guess women were due for a change of some sort anyhow. ( bf the Ball eradicate, lno. |