Beauty of Feature Is Coming Into Its Own

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 10

Beauty of Feature Is Coming Into Its Own

'THE fact that many' of the English A society women are indistinguishable from* their daughters and often more attractive, was pointed out not long ago by the Marquess of Donegall in a London daily newspaper.

“Looking round at the ‘debs’ and their mothers, I see two distinct types. Vou get first the mother who has not. chosen t,o follow the trend of fashion. She has become a stately, dignified matron, wearing clothes to suit her age and looking distinctly what she is —Edwardian. “Then there is the modern mother who became grown-up at the beginning of and during the war. She is almost indistinguishable from her daughter and (unless you look too closely to be polite) just us youthful in appearance. Sometimes she is much more attractive.

Good Features Coming Back. “As I survey the outstanding young girls of to-day, I seem to see that good features are coming back into fashion. Features, can, of course, lie accentuated or camouflaged at will by' make-op and hairdressing. •■•The round face and the “cute” snub-nose are giving way to the oval face with almost Grecian features.

“Though the fashion in faces appears to be changing and beauty ol feature will come into its own again, ihe plain girl need not despair and retire to spinste.rhood as in former generations.

“Make-up and hairdressing play so great a part nowadays that "wonderful colouring” and naturally' wavy' hair count; for nothing. “Women say that the plainest girl can make herself attractive in the modern sense if she studies her own ivpe and makes the best of it. This f can well believe, for I see going about girls who are certainly smart and fascinating, but when analysed arc imdeniablv hideous.

Large Mouths in Fashion. “The ones with almond-shaped eyes go all Chinese, in their headgear. Large mouths happen to be in fashion at the moment, which gives that kind of ugly duckling a chance. Besides mouths vary in size at will, now that debutantes do not have to keep lipstick and rouge at the bottom of a flowerpot in the conservatory. “Universal silk stockings have improved legs out of all measure, and girls who are a" little t.oo plump need not sulk, as it is no longer the thing to be as flat as the pantry-door. The exotic being still attractive to postwar man, a girl with too protuberant hipbones, can still be mysterious and vampish. “Altogether, with the means at Iheir disposal to make, the best of themselves, it would not ho a surprising thing if the girls of to-day wore not more beautiful —or ‘attractive’ —than were their mothers at iheir age.”