The Dimple Disappears

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 9

The Dimple Disappears

The smiling dimple, for years a subject for poets and essayists and an invariable accompaniment of the Victorian heroine, has disappeared from the face of the modern woman.

That, at any rate, is the view of a woman beauty specialist, who declared to a London “Daily Mail” reporter that the dimple was as rare now as tlie the long skirt or the pork-pie hat. The specialist said: The strain of a girl’s life now is making her face harder, and the truly feminine charm of a dimple, which adds so greatly to the attraction of a smile, is a rarity. The sports girl, the business girl, the dancing girl, all have their types of face. The craze for slimness of body is also reflected in the face, so that the dimple is crowded out, for women do not l>.e a full, round, plump face on top of a body as slim as a lamp-post. Many of my customers have also a permanent worried look, with a quick, nervous smile, whereas a dimple shows only in a slow smile of genuine amusement. A reporter who made a tour of eight photographers’ shops in the West End inspecting photographs failed to find a single one", even among the smiling portraits, in which a dimple could be seen. Yet on film posters and advertising posters many of the beautiful girls were portrayed with a prominent dimple.