THE MODERN FLAPPER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20268, 29 November 1927, Page 9

THE MODERN FLAPPER

AIDS TO HER MAKE-UP. INDEBTED TO CHEMISTRY. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) LONDON, November 27. “ The Patron Saint of Chemistry ” is how Dr E. F. Armstrong, director of the British Dyestuffs Corporation, described the modern flapper, at the annual gathering of chemists. He said: “ Almost everything displayed to our admiring view was the work of chemists. She had rings on her fingers comprised of synthetic stones, and bells on her toes, otherwise synthetic leather. Also, mysterious underclothes, which constituted one of the chemists’ greatest achievements. The very sheen of her hair was perhaps synthetic, while her face doubtless bore produces of the Dyestuffs Corporation.”—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable. THE AGE OF FLAPPERDOM. LASTS LONGER IN BRITAIN. LONDON, November 27. Sir James Parr, opening a school at Seaford, Essex, expressed the opinion that the age of flapperdom in Britain lasted to 21 to 25 .years, whereas it finished in New Zealand at 18. His experience was that girls at 21 were steadier than boys at 21, and disliked revolutionary change. Mr Baldwin was rightly enfranchising women at the age of 21.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.