At no time is the arrangement of the hair so noticeable as in the summer, when the average healthy American girl goes hatless. At about sixteen or seventeen years the hair is generally worn up on the head, and if the present modes are followed, and the hair arranged deep over the brow and ears and low in the back, the youthful grace and charm will not be sacrificed.

Girls of fourteen and fifteen may wear their hair parted in the center or on either side, or combed back in a soft pompadour with the ends of the hair fastened with a barrette as shown below. For straight hair the plaited mode at the bottom of this page is very pretty. A flat bow is suitable for daywear, or a satin band for parties.

A few weeks back I discovered this amusing yet quite frightening article scanned and blogged by Lauren of Wearing History. In this 1910 article from The Delineator, which was one of America’s most popular home and fashion magazines before Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, et al, American humorist Gelett Burgess penned a piece on plastic surgery. Though this is written in first person, and I assume it was written with his tongue firmly in cheek, based on the fashionable practice of enameling (enamel was injected into wrinkles) and injecting wax into the face (Gladys Deacon!), and the presence of plastic surgery in Edwardian beauty books and WWI articles, this tale cannot be too far-fetched! Read it and let me know what you think.