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Description: | Inscription on lower right of photo reads: "1925-26." The following quote is from a clippings of unidentified sources which were found in the London College of Fashion Archive. This quote from c.1925-6: -Shingled debutantes at next week's Courts will wear bandeaux and other devices to hide their diminished heads and support their plumes. Hairdressing pupils at the L.C.C. Trade School for Girls, Barrett-street, Marylebone, learning how to put the new -wavy bandeau on a shingled -customer. -Considerable alarm is being felt by the debutantes of the season at the thought that bobbed hair may not be permitted at courts. This quote from c.1924: " Women who cut off their hair in a hurry to follow the shingling craze need no longer despair when they need a 'bun' at the back again. A discovery made by the ingenious young students of the L. C. C. Trade School in Barrett Street dispenses for ever with the dread finality of the shingle. . . 'We have invented a system' an official said today ' by means of which the hair removed from a shingled head is set up into appropriate tresses, and kept ready on the woman's dressing table. Then, when long hair is needed, it is fixed to the head with a band, and with clever hair dressing, will look exactly like growing hair.'" | Subjects: | photograph uniforms wig postiche headband female students Hairdressing: women´s hairdressing hairstyling | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Photographer unknown Creator Corporate Name: Barrett Street school | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7639... | Go to resource |
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