The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c15.s2.14

c15.s2.14

The fashions of dressing the hair were as numerous as graceful. An examination of the paintings at Ajanta will be an eye-opener even to the most fashionable ladies of the present generation. These fashions can be better seen in the original than described in words. It is customary at present to talk of Orissa as a backward province. The fashions of hair-dressing current there twelve hundred years ago were, however, so varied and graceful, that even the most fashionable cinema stars of Bombay and Calcutta may immensely add to their popularity by imitating some of them.