Modernist 14th Century
THE modern revolt against, fashion leaders of the day is all the stranger because women are prepared to follow the dress of the beauties of bygone centuries, writes a London correspondent. In plucking their eyebrows, for instance, they are copying Anne of Bohemia and her fourteenth century contemporaries. Medical authority has just sanctioned this fashion, launched five centuries ago, and recently revived. “Pluck your eyebrows as much as you like,” was the advice of the ophthalmic expert, ,Dr. Marcelli Shaw, at the New Health Society Summer School. Fourteenth-century women had already proved this mode to be harmless. They launched a vogue for showing, no. hair; shaving their necks, and even their foreheads, as well as plucking their eyebrows.
The fashion was revived by the Italian Exhibition, with its wealth of fourteenth century paintings.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18545, 3 November 1934, Page 10
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