. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . ? HAPTER II, AIR fashionably cul;, andbrushed by machineryis a notice you wouldnever see in China, forthe simple reason thathair is not,cut at all, butshaven. The whole head isshaven, with the excep-tion of a small patch onthe crown, which is allowed to _grow as long as it is braided into a cue, and the ends are made fast withsHk. It often happens th^t the natural cue is not longenough to suit the taste of the wearer; he then has itlengthened by other hair being added, tiU, in somecases, the pigtail alnio
. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . ? HAPTER II, AIR fashionably cul;, andbrushed by machineryis a notice you wouldnever see in China, forthe simple reason thathair is not,cut at all, butshaven. The whole head isshaven, with the excep-tion of a small patch onthe crown, which is allowed to _grow as long as it is braided into a cue, and the ends are made fast withsHk. It often happens th^t the natural cue is not longenough to suit the taste of the wearer; he then has itlengthened by other hair being added, tiU, in somecases, the pigtail alniost touches the ground. I must. HAIRDRESSING. 17 Le careful what I say on this matter. I was goingto enlarge on the foolish, and, to put it mildly,anything but nice idea of wearing other persons hairbesides ones own; but whilst I have been away Ifind that this barbarous custom has extended toother nations, so that what John Chinaman hasbeen doing for two hundred years our ladies havetaken to. I was particularly struck, soon after my arrival, innoticing a friend-of mine—who, when I left, was gettingthin as to the hair,—displaying a huge quantity thatthat I was certain could never have belonged to made a remark, disposed somewhat to beg pardonfor daring to suppose it possible; but I was soon setat ease by being assured that everybody wore falsehair. Said I to myself, wouldnt the Chinese laughto find the English at last adopting one of theircustoms ? I was glad to find, on inquiry, that if our ladiescopy the Chinese in this respect, they do not obtaintheir false hair in the same manner. There are men called C
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