FEWER UGLY WOMEN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18659, 30 August 1930, Page 11

FEWER UGLY WOMEN

REALISING THEIR TYPE. So many women are fair to look upon now ... it is only ugly people who can be remembered. —The Registrar of Clerkenwell County, recently. Are there more pretty women to-day than there used to be, or do we only think there are? Watch the women who throng the streets of any large town, look at the crowds now pushing their way into the maelstrom of the summer sales. You will certainly want to look again, writes a Londoner. ’Travel through the English countryside and you will come across not one but a whole host of women whose charms will enchant you and make you feel that the Englishwoman of to-day can claim a high place among the attractive women of the world. How is it that the standard of beauty has risen so high in England during the past few years? What is the secret of the modern woman’s success? Are men less critical than they used to be?

The answer lies in the fact that the modern girl has discovered that there is no need for her to be ugly. She now knows how to cultivate her outstanding points whether they are good or bad. She has found out how to look interesting if she is not pretty. The triumph of the fluffy girl is no longer assured. The girl of to-day has learnt to dress to suit her style. And it is consequently hard to pick out an ugly girl in a crowd. There is a definite type of modem English girl. Her face is possibly a trifle hard, but her complexion is well cared for and harmonises with the colouring of her hair and eyes. She often accentuate her ugliest points. Her mouth is too large; she uses a vivid lipstick which makes it look still larger and the result is startling, but pleasing.

If her figure is angular, she stresses its angles. The result is the quintessence of angularity and an appearance that makes her stand out from the crowd. If her forehead is high, she makes no compromise with softly fluffing hair. She scrapes back her hair, wears bizarre ear-rings and becomes “a type.”

The ugly woman is dying out. Her place is being taken by a multitude of types, each delightful in it own way. Men do not pass beauty by as the registrar seems to think. They have merely discovered that a woman’s fortune no longer lies in her face, but in her personality.