JAPANESE STANDARD OF FEMALE BEAUTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3512, 5 July 1921, Page 50

JAPANESE STANDARD OF FEMALE BEAUTY.

It has happened more than once that a Japanese baby has howled and shrieked in terror at the sight of a beautiful, fairhaired, blue-eyed English girl. This may strike you as comic or tragic, but it is a fact.' Japanese standards of feminine beauty are different to ours. A Japanese beauty must have straight black hair. Should she have the misfortune to nossbs.s hair with the slightest tendency to wave, she will take endlees trouble to straighten it out —as much trouble, in fact, aa an

English girl would take to produce the opposite effect. Iler face should be narrow and long; her 'forehead high and narrow at the middle, but wider and lower at the sidee, so that it corresponds as nearly as possible to the outline of Fuji, the mountain beloved by Japanese artists. Her eyes of course must be long and narrow, slanting upwards at the cornersthe eyebrows mere shadows, and high above the eyes;- tier complexion ivory white with little or no colour. The Japanese girl carries her head and shoulders sughtly forward, and inclines her body forward from tho waist. She walks with short, quick steps, her toes turned in and her feet hardly lifted from the ground. To walk otherwise would be immodest!