Figure 1.--"La Mode Pratique" had many articles about children's fashions and raising children. In this article, Trois, there was advice about hair styling for infants and younger boys.
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Figure 1.--"La Mode Pratique" had many articles about children's fashions and raising children. In this article, Trois, there was advice about hair styling for infants and younger boys. |
La Mode Pratique had many articles about children's fashions and raising children. In this article, Trois, there was advice about hair styling for infants and younger boys. The author suggests, "One advice is to avoid the " bigoudis " which were used for the choupette. The author suggests that the bigoudis can damage the hair."
A French reader tells us, La Mode Pratique was a very popular fashion magazine in France." We are not sure, but believe it is a fashion magazine, or possibly a sewing
magazine. We know that the magazine included patterns. We have few details on the publishing history of the magazine at this time. We do note that it was published as early as the
1910s. The issue here is dated 1926. We do not yet know, however when it was founded or ceased publication. It appears to have had considerable information about children's
clothing. We do know that it was published throughout the 1930s-40s and into the 50s.
Qu'est-il de plus attrayant et de plus charmant que de coiffer les fins et soyeux cheveux de votre bébé? Sa personnalité encore si peu marquée dans les petits traits de son visage se révèle déjà nettement par sa chevelure. Oui, c'est l'éclat et la teinte de sa délicate toison qui lui donnet déjà tout son relief; ayez donc grand soin, dès son premier âge, de sa chevelure.
Brossez-lui les cheveux toujours " à rebrousse-poil " de façon à ne pas les aplatir et à leur donner le plus de souplesse possible, puis laissez-les se placer tout naturellement en évitant les bigoudis qui souvent usent et cassent les cheveux et leur donne trop d'apprêt.
What is more attractive and more charming than having done the fine and silky soft hair of your little child? If his personality still so few marked in the little figure of his face appears already clearly by his hair. Yes, it is the bloom and the colour of his delicate hair which give him already all its relief; so take great care, beginning at a very eraly age with his hair.
Always brush his hair "in opposite direction" in order not to flatten it and to give it the most possible flexibility, then let his hair be styled quite naturally while avoiding the hair-curlers which are too often used and break the hair and gives it too much finish.
French boys have not worn curls as commonly as boys in seberal other countries, including America. HBC has noted, however, one curled hair style. A French
reader describes a "coiffure de garçonnet avec une choupette". He reports that it was was common from the 1930s and early 50s with mothers who wanted to make
a younger boy look nice and he himself wore such hair styles. He indicates that choupette was a familiar name. It consist as a big curl of hair placed in the the middle
of the head. The vogue was quite common for boys in affluent families and to make boys look alike "enfants modèles" (model children). Boys might keep a "bigoudi"
or a "barette" in their hair. The word choupette today is only understood by the older people. Young people in France today don't today know exactly what it
means, but recognize it as something associated with hair styling.
A French reader tells us, "I agree with this advice ... in spite of the fact that the choupette were also beautifull, even if it required bigoudi and could bother the boy a bit when sleeping. It's also true that the mothers were fond of natural hair' style for their babies. Notice , in this time the toddler as the baby was named a " bébé " e have not real word to call a toddler less 3 yrs.
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