SHAVEN EYEBROWS.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17415, 1 September 1928, Page 6

SHAVEN EYEBROWS.

The latest craze in Vienna is the shaven eyebrow. Dining last night on the terrace of the charming rococco mansion, now a hotel, on the wooded slopes of Coblenz above tli£ sea of light which is Vienna, says one writer, I saw that all the women at thre e out of the four neighbouring tables had shaved their eyebrows, replacing them by a delicate line of black pencil, which made no more pretence to be natural than does the average pair of neatlydrawn “Cupid’s bow r ” lips. "What fashion demands is a thin, upward curving line, a fraction of an inch above the space left vacant by the defunct natural eyebrow. That the effect is beautiful I think no one could maintain. Bizarre is certainly is, and a trifle Oriental, suggestive of Japan or IVTadame Butterfly. The doctors, particularly the eye specialists, are up in arms against the new fashion, and warn its followers that the natural eyebrow has not merely the function of looking beautiful, but important duty of keeping dust and perspiration from the eyes. No doubt their protests will be just as effective as were those which at various periods they have made against tight lacing, high-heeled shoes, and the excessive use of cosmetics.