WHAT MEN PAY FOR GOOD LOOKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3144, 20 November 1922, Page 8

WHAT MEN PAY FOR GOOD LOOKS.

(By Constance Vaugban.) Men aire funny. Extremely and unconsciously funny. And quite their funniest characterti'stie is their persistent anxiety to remove the mote from the female eye and their unconcern at the beam in their own. Men are convinced, in fact, that women dress to capture them, and that where i>ersonal adornment is concerned women are undoubtedly the extravagant sex. That is merely a matter of opinion, but the accusation of extravagance needs a defence from wonienkind in general. One has only to visit a man's beauty parlor, for there aro such things, to realise that many a. man spend s far more money on beautifying himself than does his much-maligned companion. This, be it understood, is not a comparison between the average man with his shave and! hair-cut and the average girl with her Dorin de Podhe, Is 6d; it is a> comparison between men and women with infinite time and money to spend and nothing, apparently, more worthy to spend it on than themselves. The manager of one of the exclusive male beauty parlors told me that his clients spend daily, as a matter or course, from ft to £2 on the regulation shave, hair-cut, and manicure. He confessed that the special preparations such as face creams. hairwash, bath powder and salts are inlinitely more expensive than the same items prepared lor women, lie added, moreover, that men use more! Colossal jars of eau de Cologne in which Adonis bathes, and gallons yes, gallons of hair-wash are sent continually to their various places in town, country, and abroad. An undersized bottle of hair-wash costs H7s (kl. Perfumes are. of course, specially made, and the heart that burns to lie orgina! runs the competition and the prices high. He showed me an ivoryhandled shaving brush at €l2 12s, and' a set of, to me, perfectly ordinary hair brushes at £2O, with a smile and no comment. Personally, I cannot sec that a woman of indefinite age. but very definite make-up is more ludicrous than an elderly Narcissus emerging from his mud massage and staring enraptured at his own image!

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