BLACK BEAUTIES
BAN ON DISFIGUREMENT. DRASTIC ALTERNATIVES. t * (Received 0 a.m.) PARIS, May 16. The Minister of the Colonies has decided that the disfigurement of Black beauties in the French Colonies must cease. In the past negresses submitted to nose piercing, teeth filing and lip distortion, in order to conform to the standard of beauty, but from now on women patronising native beauty specialists will be liable to imprisonment for five years' and the specialist to ten years' penal servitude. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1927, Page 5
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83BLACK BEAUTIES Northern Advocate, 18 May 1927, Page 5
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