Hairdressing Accident Sets off Fashion Trend for Zebra-Striped Hair

Celebrity photographer and society columnist Jerome Zerbe informed Sunday Mirror magazine readers that the latest fashion trend of zebra-striped hair owed its origins to a dreadful dye job suffered by Mrs. Harrison Williams in Palm Beach. Efforts to correct the initial disaster left her with a pinkish, multi-colored, striped forelock. The much-photographed Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams had been dubbed the best dressed woman in the world in the 1930s (Time magazine 3/08/1937) and was still such a trend setter that fashion slaves everywhere, not realizing it had been an accident, began sporting a similar look. For her part, once the socialite managed to fly her usual New York stylist to Florida she had it dyed to her usual chestnut brown. According to Zerbe, she was contemplating letting the gray grow in as soon as she was sequestered in her private villa in Capri.