LIPSTICK AND ROUGE

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 5

LIPSTICK AND ROUGE

“PART OF CIVILISATION.” LONDON OFFICE STYLES. London, Aug. 23. Although the Commonwealth Bank has forbidden lipsticks and rouge and ordered its girl employees to wear dark uniform in Australia, the girls in its London offices are not worrying. An official says that the bank relies absolutely on their discretion. There are no such rules, and there, have never been any complaints. There is no stipulated uniform, though the bank supplies green overalls. A Sun representative visiting the Australia House branch of the bank found cosmetics conspicuously absent. “Few things could humiliate a young business woman more,” says the Daily Mail, in a leading article, “than to be ordered to wash her face. The Commonwealth Bank girls are not in great peril of this, because the art of make-up has been raised so far above artifice that detection is difficult. Cosmetics are part of the 20th century civilisation. The world would be less charming if it returned to the era when women wore too much clothing and insufficient makeup,’ or to the remoter period, when these conditions were reversed.”