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Phyllis Kirk, the talented charmer of Warners' "The City Is Dark," feels strongly that there is nothing quite like an exciting new hair-do for raising a girl's glamour rating. "But," she told us, "I do think the styling has to be right for the structure of the face that goes with it or the result will provoke more comments than compliments."
After these words of wisdom we knew that Phyllis was just the person we needed to help us show you what sense-making styling can do by adapting a fashion to fit an individual's needs. Our project: a new hair-style for Phyllis would illustrate how artistry can make an asset out of the current rage for bangs. Our guest expert: Mme. Marguerite Buck, famous President of Fashion Futures and recipient of goodness knows how many styling awards here and abroad.
In the photographs you can see the flattering results of Mme. Buck's design for Phyllis, and three other treatments of bangs for quite different effects. You'll notice that with Phyllis, Mme. Buck's basic problem was to build an asymmetrical line to compensate for the square shape of the piquant Kirk face. ( Faces, as you probably know, are described in such unimaginative terms as square, round, oval, or diamond-shaped.) This Mme. Buck accomplished by adding height at one side with what she calls a "TV curl," and making the bangs soft and fluffy and slightly raised. There is a short center part that only continues to the middle of the head, where it meets semi-circular sections that are drawn from the left temple to the temple hairline at the right. The right side has that reversed curl we mentioned before. To get the same soft effect with your own bangs be sure they're set in sculpture curls, and the left side set in a plain stand-up curl. For Phyllis, Mme. Buck has (continued on pace 65)
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By ELIZABETH LAPHAM
A star and a hair stylist show you the kind of magic that can be worked with coiffures built around bangs
A side view shows you how the styling is Phyllis shows you how becoming it is to kept flat at the temples and soft above, have the bangs raised from the forehead.
Phyllis Kirk, soon to be seen in "The City Is Dark," looks prettier than ever with the new hair-style designed by Marguerite Buck.