PASSING OF THE DIMPLE
A newspaper correspondent has made the discovery that the. hard-faced modern girl has lost the art of dimpling. For the benefit of those who do not remember the good old days when girls were girls, (he says) a dimple, in the cold language of the Oxford Dictionary, is “a small hollow especially in cheek or chin.” It was considered a mark of beauty. In their odes to fair maidens poets always set aside a verse for the dimple. Let it not be said, however, that the passing of the dimple is further proof of the decline of maidenly sweetness. Dimples connote an amount of adipose tisuo, and the modern girl is too fit and fashionably slim to dimp. And we have no great distress at the thought that things may he now more difficult for poels. If she has sacrificed the dimple, our modern girl has acquired more than enough of li esh attractions to make up for it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 16
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163PASSING OF THE DIMPLE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 16
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