LOOKING SMART IN WARTIME
NO EXCUSE FOR SHABBINESS In peace-time Ann Seymour used to give expensive beauty hints to the women of Britain. What she has to say about them now .in a recent BBC broadcast, is an interesting contrast. "In spite of clothes coupons, the acute scarcity of cosmetics, soap rationing, and the difficulty of getting a permanent wave, .British women are looking remarkably smart and pretty. . . Although our hands have never been so busy and it is almost impossible to get hand creams or
lotion, no girl, even in the toughest job, is seen with ill-groomed hands . . . They use a little castor oil and salt mixed to cleanse and soften the hands . . . "A girl in the A.T.S. told me that in her unit as soon as a supply -.of nail varnish appeared in the canteen there was a great rush to buy—by the men. They had found that they could keep a brilliant polish for days on their buttons with one application of colourless varnish. However ,the girls had their own back. The next time pipe-cleaners were on sale, they got in first and bought the lot —for hair curlers!"
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13671, 19 June 1942, Page 3
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