Beauty Bars and Rest Cubicles
Paris Enterprise fWOMEN in Paris have certainly one ' ' advantage in the make-up line. The latest idea is beauty bars. Instead of surreptitiously and hurriedly dabbing powder on, after perhaps a bout of shopping before meeting friends, husband or fiance, the French woman can walk into a beauty bar and banish the day's ravages in comfort and pence. The "bar" consists of an array of cleansing creams, rouge, eye baths, manicure sets, and everything the heart of a well-turned-out beauty can desire. In addition, the bar caters for the tired woman, and provides a rest cubicle where she can relax before changing her frock, which, if she cares to, she can deposit in the morning. For this "complete rehabiliment" the shop-weary or business-exhausted woman pays only'lo francs—about Is. It is an idea that an enterprising woman might investigate for there is no doubt about it that busy women going out in the evening would willingly pay a small sum to know they were looking their best,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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