KILLED BY MAKE-UP
MODERN GIRLS OUTDONE. The modern girl, who “makes-up” first thing in the morning and continues to “make-up” until last thing at night is not nearly so highly coloured as was her great-great-grandmother. Nor does she overdo it to such a fatal extent.
Mrs Herbert Richardson, talking to the Royal Society of Arts in London recently, on fashionable crazes in the eighteenth century, said that from 1745 to 1760, 15 ladies of fashion were supposed to have died through painting their faces. Men had the craze also. During the great wars of the period, the newspapers frequently advertised “campaign boxes for officers, fitted with eau-de-luce, rouge, perfumed pomatum, powder-puffs, lip salve and ivory eyebrow combs.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 8
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