Word: chignon
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...inches longer," decreed the American Hair Design Institute. "Short, chopped effects and overly sleek lines should be avoided . . ." But that was not enough. To be chic, milady also had to deck her head with a chignon. The chignon (rhymes with filet mignon) is a batch of hair, tied, rolled or braided into shapes resembling a trayful of Danish pastries. It can be the lady's own hair if she's grown it long enough, or someone else's carefully matched and pinned in place...
...neither boys nor girls admitted knowing about the sweet-treatment until told of it by a CRIMSON reporter. Even Miss Alice Chignon of Medford, beautifier at George's Beauty Salon, admitted that neither she nor George knew the stuff was spiked...
Beneath her brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...faintly haughty, uptilted face and alabaster gaze were framed between a velvet choker and a brave upswept chignon. Her manner and her clothes were proud, yet just a shade on the bold side. She was seen everywhere-at fashionable parties and on bathing beaches, in books and magazines, especially Life, and in hundreds of thousands of real-life copies. She was the Glamor Girl of the Gay Nineties, the unforgettable Gibson Girl...
...similar ceremony honored Dr. Marion Talbot, Dean of Women at the University of Chicago. Dean Talbot spoke: ". . . . As the Little Lord Fauntleroy type of boy has been superseded by the vigorous, athletic boy scout so the girl, freed from corset and hoopskirt and chignon, in blouse and knickers or swimming tights, performs feats of physical agility and endurance which in the days of her great-grandmother would have condemned her to a social limbus, if not to something worse." She recalled the day when a college woman was considered "a freak and an outcast...