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...short-long cut.'' says Stylist Vidal Sassoon, "is the only right and logical combination to wear with the new fashion lengths." Leonard of London, who insists he invented it. is so happy with the Ape cut and so virtuoso at it that 75 top Japanese hair stylists flew in last week to study his techniques. Julie Christie, Mary Quant and the cast of Hair have all left theirs on English cutting-room floors. In Paris, the Duchess of Windsor, Mme. Herve Alphand and Claudia Cardinale have gone for Alexandre's version of the style; Elizabeth Taylor...
...unruly, it never looks worse growing out, needs nothing more than a trim every four months. For women who feel Pollyannaish with short hair, the hank at the neck lends reassurance if not beauty. And for those who want to go simian but are slightly squeamish, there is always Sassoon's new way out: the Veil, with a long thin screen of hair completely covering the face. Blinking, obviously, is a nono...
...kick a victim if one's boots are flopping and one's trousers are dropping-but bootlaces and braces are not all that difficult to replace. The only resolution, it would seem, will come when Britain produces a still newer youth fad. In the meantime, Vidal Sassoon's Mayfair salon has capitalized on the current one by offering skinhead hairdos to London's trendiest ladies...
Fashion designers sensed the approaching boom, and got a head start. By the end of 1968, ready-to-wear stretch wigs by Adolfo and Halston were available for $30, and just this month Vidal Sassoon put his own brand on the counters. In only a year, the leading firm in the field, Abbott Tresses, increased its stretch-wig sales from $200,000 to $10 million and stands every chance of more than doubling the amount by the end of 1970. Says Max Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz...
...brush and pencil once again. Hood's hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke to Haydon, gave it to him before he died at the age of 67 in 1886. The late poet Siegfried Sassoon, who gave it to London's Tate Gallery in 1963, inherited it indirectly from Haydon...