USES OF ENAMEL IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.
The use of enamel in Washington society is growing more and more common. It used to be that only the oldest and homeliest used enamel Upon their faces, and in such cases it but rarely extended below the neck. Now many young girls enamel, and wiih lowcut dresses they must, to carry out the illusion, enamel arms and bust, as well a! their faces. A sort of enamel powder is now used which is rubbed on and polished until the flesh shows like polished wax. The illusion is well enough when a maiden has a form like that of Mary Anderson, or the arms and bust or' a Venus de Medici, but when she is of the lean, scraggy, corn-fed variety, all angles and no curves, the effect is horrid. There are nine scraggy girls in Washington society to one plump one, and I think if the men could have the matter put to a vote they would decide in favour of high-necked dresses and sleeves buttoned tight at the wrist. Fortunes are spent here in paint and powder every season, and had I the income from the rouge alone I would have more than a congressman's yearly salary. — Cleveland Leader.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1757, 11 June 1886, Page 6
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207USES OF ENAMEL IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1757, 11 June 1886, Page 6
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