"GET YOUR MAN"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 254, 26 October 1945, Page 10

"GET YOUR MAN"

FOR WOMEN

ADVICE TO BRIDES AMERICAN MEN LIKE CLOTHES NEW YORK. Australian brides of American servicemen should smarten themselves up before coming to the United States because they will be entering a country where women are predatory, said the Australian stage actress, Diana Parnham Tarves. Diana Parnham married the American war correspondent, Brydon Taves, who was killed in New Guinea, and she is now# living in New Ycrk. She was commenting on a statement criticising English women's clothes which was made by Lady' Cavendish (the former dancer, Adele Astaire), who has returned to the United States from London. Lady Cavendisn said that Americans "who married English girls would discover on their return home that British women did not have the knack of putting on clothes.

Diana Parnham said this applied to many Australian girls also, although "this was accounted for, to a large extent, by the limited selection of clothing in Australia during the war and also by rationing, which did not apply to clothing in the United States.

However, Miss Parnham said, many Australian girls were apt to be careless in dress and lacked the poise and carriage of American girls. She ■ attributed this mainly to the typical attitude of the Australian male, who was too sparing with compliments; as a result, women were not encouraged to present their best appearance. She said that while Australia and Britain were "men's" countries, the United States defienitely was a "woman's" country, where women were aided and abetted by their menfolk in making a good showing.

• They spared neither pains ncr money in this regard from the early age, when they practised carriage by walking with a book on the head, to later life, when chey went on a strict diet.

American women had the benefit of marvellous corsetrv, and also helped Nature along with little artifices like padding. Further, they were not afraid to experiment with new stjies in hats and clothing, which women would net dare to wear in the streets in some Australian cities.

"Australian brides arriving in the United States should not consider they can let up by just having married an American," Miss Parnham said.

"American women work on the principle, 'Get your man,' and are not over-careful about the single or married status, because divorce is comparatively easy in the United States."