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Spring 2006 Fashion Forecast
As seen in the March/April 2006 edition of WE Magazine!
by Dennis O'Dell
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Pictures of the Trianon Palace
Versailles, France Spring of 2005
Softer Bob
Softer Bob
Blunt Cut
Chocolate Brown Haircolor
Welcome to my Hair Fashion Forecast for Spring 2006. When you relay my outlook to your family, friends, and enemies, bear in mind, I take full responsibility for what is said here. After all, don’t you hate it when someone tells you, “They say the color this year is red,” or “They say skirts will be shorter”? Now you can tell them I said it!
Get comfortable; turn off that annoying cell phone and while your lounging at the Trianon Palace — Versailles, France. You can enjoy the view that only the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces and Mick Jagger staying in the Presidential Suite ever enjoyed. You ask yourself, “What will be the look for hair this coming spring?” OK, let’s get real, you’re sitting down to your morning coffee on the West Shore or perhaps the East overlooking the raging Susquehanna and asking the very same question.
The short of it is, in forecasting any fashion trend, the one certainty is change - nothing stays the same. After all, the cardinal rule of fashion has become what isn’t, is always more important then what is. Now the longer version, this spring is no different with the exception of one wild card, “the economy.” As energy costs go up as well as interest rates, watch for a return of conservatism in hair as well as clothes. So, what will it look like? Deliberately less dramatic, no rocket boost in texture and free form. Perhaps a return to a romantic softness and touch-ability in hair as evidenced by the return of the glamour girl to Hollywood movies.
The Bob may return not as glossy as the sixties but with a smattering of fringes.
Watch out for the blunt cut, its been missing from the runways for years a sure sign of a déjà vu with short geometric bangs about a haft inch above the brow.
What about hair color? Color will be extremely important for these birds of spring support all this shine and healthy looking touch-ability. Blonde will be blondes as they always are, coppers will continue to grow in acceptance.
Yet, the sleeper color is warm chocolate browns returning with a vengeance over the next several years. They’ll share the runways of New York and Paris as well as the streets of cities and burbs with some tried and true urban shock color to prove once again, ”no one need be refrigerator white blonde by default!”
So awake now from your self imposed coma on the lounge at the Palace Trianon and go forth into spring with my final words of wisdom, ”Forget plastic surgery, Versace, Victoria’s Secret, terribly expensive Swiss watches and knuckle busting solitaries. Without the right haircut and color, what does it all matter?"
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