The Buffalo Times from Buffalo, New York • 13

BUFFALO, N. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1923 It Becomes Society's Favored Headdress, Enhancing the dJJm 111 hfa Flawless Complexion if ho, 3 and Bringing Memories of a Graceful Age. 1 IN v. 3 5 4 1 J. I All 4 1 1 i 17 A Petite AfBM Souret, Again Acclaim A as the Most Beautiful Girl in Paris, Who Revived the White Wig Fad Which Is Spreading to America.

5 Mi 4 CC, 4 a 4 Wil 4 v. C- a. A 'lk SOI jtep HE white -wig has returned, serene and snowy symbol of courtly eighteenth century manners, memory of III minuet, teiui Into our old Versailles and the reminder of Fragonard and Wat-mnAm world of motors and jazz it appears to grace the head of Madame of Nineteen- Souret until 1923. Again la petite Agnes was acclaimed the most beautiful woman in France, but there was a difference. For the French beauty appeared this time for the judgment of Paris with her warm brown hair hidden by a white wig.

Paris looked, adjusted the well known lorgnette, took a firmer stance and a longer look to get accustomed to the new vision, murmured approval and then gave three delicate Gallic cheers. The white wig had won, overnight it became the favored headdress in smart Parisian society. And now, everywhere one goes of an even lp v. jT- i mm 'US i i I IS I I 1 it nil I I ing the French capital one sees the pow- dered wig and with it something of bytgone cnarm. -w And with the Twenty-Three, to accentuate tne ivory 01 uer iiuw.

the. rose of her cheek. is a fad! Ah, yes, but so many things that art lovely are fads. It started in Paris where numerous innovations and revivals that exalt the claims "of Beauty and respond to her delightful whims have their origin. Here is the story of the romantic return.

There was a lady there is always a lady behind it all. Five years ago when she was only 17 years old they said she was the most beautiful girl in France. She had an oval face, divinely sym-metricaU a eupid's bow mouth, a nose with a tiny tilt, and below jet, arched eyebrows blue-black eyes that were both sad and saucy. Up and down the boulevards they feted her, those critics and connoisseurs in' the City of. Feminine Delight.

4' Her name was Agnes Souret. i So the years rolled by kind I years to; Mile. coming winter, the arbiters of 1 it will cross the Atlantic and y'i'S fashion assure us popularity in American cities. And Madame America will discover what her great- grandmother knew so well, that the powdered wig or its newest variation, the white silk wig enhance i the flawless white of her face and throat, hefT- rounded arms and shoulders, as nothing else will, "W- and make her' a more istinctivt figure in any. assemblage..