SMART AND PRETTY

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3129, 10 June 1942, Page 2

SMART AND PRETTY

BRITISH WOMEN IN WARTIME

INEXPENSIVE BEAUTY HINTS

In peacetime 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!”