HAIRDRESSING 



2661 



HAITI 



ncz 



2000 YEARS OF HAIRDRESSING 



Fifteenth Century 



Sixteenth Century 



Seventeenth Century 



at least a century dressing of the natural hair 

 for men was dispensed with. The coiffure of 

 women during a part of this period was ex- 

 tremely becoming. The curled hair, falling on 

 the neck and bare shoulders, was covered with 

 a crape veil. The close of the seventeenth 

 century saw the introduction of the tall head- 

 dresses of lace and stiffened muslin. In the 

 beginning of the reign of Louis XVI hairdress- 

 ing reached a hitherto unknown degree of fan- 

 tastic extravagance, and in 1750 women wore 

 a huge edifice of curls, supported by stiffening 

 devices, and surmounted by a little hat or cap. 

 One style prevailed in which this hat was re- 

 placed by a model of a ship of war. 



These extremes were gradually abolished, 

 and in the nineteenth century short hair and 

 a less elaborate style of arranging it were in 

 vogue among the men. Women also wore 

 their hair very- simply, allowing it to fall at 

 the sides in a mass of curls and confining it 

 at the back of the head with a ribbon. Later, 

 the side curls were dispensed with, and the 

 hair was arranged on the top of the head. At 

 this time the style known as the chignon was 

 introduced, and this consisted of an arrange- 

 ment of the hair over a large roll, or cushion. 

 During the last few years the false-hair indus- 



try has suffered a marked decline, due to the 

 prevailing simplicity of coiffures. 



Among the Moki Indians of the Southwest- 

 ern United States, as soon as a girl reaches the 

 marriageable age she dresses her hair fantasti- 

 cally in two round knobs above the ears; this 

 style she continues until she becomes a wife 

 (see illustration, under HOPI). J.s.c. 



Consult Rhead's Chats on Costume. 



HAIRWORM, a long, threadlike, harmless 

 worm, often seen in fresh-water pools or 

 ditches by the roadside after a rain. Children 

 sometimes believe that these worms develop 

 from horsehairs, which they greatly resemble, 

 but in reality they are found in the bodies of 

 insects, where they pass their young or larval 

 stage as parasites. When full grown they es- 

 cape to the water, for they need a great deal 

 of moisture, and deposit their eggs in slender 

 strings twisted around the stems of water 

 plants. The young hairworm, on hatching, 

 sinks to the bottom of the pond, seeking an 

 insect in which it can live until mature. 



HAITI, ha'ti, one of the West Indies, and, 

 next to Cuba, the largest of that group of 

 islands. It covers an area of 28,000 square 

 miles, and is therefore half the size of the 



