FIRST SHINGLED GIRL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 14

FIRST SHINGLED GIRL.

FASHION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. TYPES OF FEMALE BEAUTY. the first girl who wore her hair shingled has been found out- at last! She is the Lady takushet, who. lived ih Bnbastis 945 years before Christ. Her wig is not the ordinary bobbed wig common in ancient Egypt. It is, as n'hv modern woman will agree, a real first-class shinpje. which cuts into the nape of the neck. takushet is also modern to, the least detail of her clinging dress. The poise of her head ancl shoulders is modern. She looks just as though she were wai’tin'er for a Bond street photographer to snap the shutter. She also possesses the air of assurance which is supposed to be so “modern.” If she walked into any London dance chili no one would guess that she was 2800 years old! UNCHANGING IDEALS. Mr Arthur Wefgalf, the Egyptologist", regards her as a typical beauty of her day. The strange thing is that in ancient Egypt the ideal of feminine beauty never varied for 6000 years. There" was no fashion for fat women as there was in eighteenth century Europe. Reubens. who loved to paint large, heavy Venuses, would never have o-ot a job in ancient Egypt. " When the Pyramids were being built, 4500 years ag6, the court beauties who walked out to see how things were progressing were as slim as the modern Parisienne. A state-stone group of statuary made in 2754 B.C. shows the Pharaoh Mykerinus, who built one of the Pyramids, going cut for a walk with a’ couple of goddesses. LARGE, FEET. These women were no doubt copied from beauties of the day, and they euuld wear the ine«?t fashionable modern gnwri and look well, in it. The only article of women’s dress that would not have been popular during the building of the .Pyramids is the shoe. Feminine feet 4000 years ago were large and square, but good to look on unclothed. Cramped feet and corns were unknown.

The general impression of a survey of ancient Egyptian beauties is that, if some of the, lnuhiinied priestesses in the British Museum awakened and asked to lie taken util, lb dinner, any man would he proud to walk info a London restaurant with them. Ihe few bas-reliefs from Thebes, which, sl.nw women eroWned with lotus buds drinking buckets of wine, suggest that ibis would also bo an expensive adventure.