Dress and Beauty

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 11

Dress and Beauty

As a preparation for the tremendous variety of dresses and make-up produets, girls should be given dress lessons at school, advises a former Board of Education inspector, Miss S. E. Davies, of London. Addressing .a Youth Congress audience of English and French professors, employers, and social workers at University College, Southampton, she said: “Don’t be afraid to tell a girl she is pretty; teach her to dress attractively and tell her how to make the best of her personality—how to make her hair look better, and chat about the womanly things she wants to know. “This is all part of education. The modern girl hates preaching, and wants to know how to become a good companion to her boy friend, and, later on, her husband. Don’t preach at her, but discuss good films with her and offer to go along to the pictures with her if you can.” Professor A. Cook, who opened the conference, supports these views. “When a girl of 16 uses cosmetics,” he told the conference, ‘ ‘she is expressing her personality in a perfectly natural way. “Many parents are so busy dashing about being entertained that they do not leave time to help their children in the development of their personality.”