Miss Universe
Sir, — Last night I watched part of the Miss Universe 1986 programme on television. I still shudder when I recall the plastic puppets parading across the screen with their clown make-up, false eyelashes and smiles painfully in place as though sewn there by cosmetic surgery. How dare the Americans criticise Sarah Ferguson’s physical attributes. Her complexion is her own, her teeth and eyelashes are her own, her hair is natural, her opinions not P. R.-sanitized and her smile is spontaneous and genuine. Her figure is generous, as befits a large-boned girl. Whilst not a devotee of Royalty, I accept Sarah for what she is by chance of birth, but those poor manipulated contestants have only themselves to blame for the shallow travesties of womanhood that they have, allowed the male advertising world to make of them. — Yours, etc., SHIRLEY R. DAVEY. July 23, 1986.
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Press, 25 July 1986, Page 16
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