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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 4

Titian and Auburn Hair Types continued…
Part 4 (final part) of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
RED : Never becoming to any of these four types in any of its shades up to and including pink. The only possible exception would be the auburn brunette, with hair [...]

Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 3

Titian and Auburn Hair Types
Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE are four distinct groups in this class. First, the Titian blonde.
The true Titian blonde has flaming red hair that is vivid enough not to be called blond and light enough not to be [...]

Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 2

Eyes are an Important Color Index
Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE is nothing as expressive as the eyes. Nothing so portrays a person’s mentality, a person’s soul, a person’s aliveness. The very plainest woman in the world cannot be plain if she has [...]

Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 1

Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
COLOR is at your disposal. The correct use of it can have an inestimable value in your life. If you do not pay any attention to its possibilities you are overlooking one of the means for acquiring and [...]

Causes of the Common Cold 1925

DOCTORS STUDYING THE COMMON COLD
SCIENTIFIC interest in a disease is apt to vary directly with its rarity, remarks The Lancet (London), so that minor maladies, and in particular the common cold, do not receive that attention which their prevalence would appear to warrant. Of recent years the common cold, however, has been studied more assiduously [...]

DUI Tests 1927

TESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS
JUST HOW DRUNK must a man be to make him unsafe as a motorist? This is the problem that has been bothering British experts, as already noted in these columns.
The British Medical Journal (London) tells us that for several years public attention has been aroused by convictions of persons charged with drunkenness when [...]

New Hope for Meth Addiction

New hope for Methamphetamine Addicts
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Opium was the drug of choice by those using artificial stimulants. Today it is methamphetamine (speed or ice) that is a blight on our society. CrystalClear will help those looking to overcome their dependence on meth and help them regain control of their life.
Many [...]

Status of Beards and Whiskers in 1923

The denizen of the French Latin Quarter formerly went bearded; but not to-day. Not, at least, the real Frenchman. Beards are disappearing from Europe, says the observant London weekly, John o’ London’s, except in Czecho-Slovakia, where wearing them is regarded as a patriotic duty. We read:
“In England nowadays beards are rare enough to be conspicuous, [...]

1920’s Hairstyles

The decade of theÂ 1920’s was interesting for the significant changes that took place in the hairdressing industry.
Up until the 1920’s, long hair was preferred by most women. It was either worn long, fashioned into buns or plaits, or worn up in fancy hairstyles for special occasions. The first world war precipitated a change in attitude [...]

Accident Prevention 1927

ACCIDENTS ON SCHEDULE
“IN MY experience in industry I have found that all accidents happen in the first two hours of the first half of the working day, and the last two hours of the last half,” says Dr. W. Louis Hartman, chief surgeon, Michigan Central Railroad, writing in National Safety News. Says The Nation’s Health [...]