Word: chignons
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...dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English, chain-smokes Kool cigarettes in a long, gold holder...
...began with Psyche, who did not allow herself to be seen in public without her chignon, and gave to modern females the chignon style called the Psyche knot...
Bellwether's Topknot. For the short, chopped, overly sleek follower-or victim-of the short-haircut style, the new style was a shock. Even if she moved into a hothouse and buried herself in Vigoro, she couldn't grow a chignon of her own in time to be in style. By no coincidence, the hair stylists were ready with just what the lady roundheads needed: the artificial chignon...
Last week the chignon, first popular in France in the 18305,* was staging a triumphant comeback in Manhattan. On its cover, LIFE had run a glamorous photograph of TV Star Faye Emerson with chignon. The fashion magazines were embracing the false buns, braids and curls with the ecstatic gushes and gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut...
...designer who claims to have launched the chignon fad, one Madame Marguerite Buck of Fashion Futures, had also helped promote the short haircut. "American women carry things to extremes," said she. "We didn't expect them to crop all their hair off-they look like Chihuahuas." The chignon, she thought, was the ideal answer...