BLACK BELLES
FRANCE’S EDICT COLONIAL “BEAUTY” DOCTORS. Received May 17, 11 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) PARTS, May 16. The Minister of the Colonies has decided that the disfigurement of black beauties in French Colonics must cease. In the past negresses submitted to nose piercing, teeth filling and lip distortion in order to conform to the standard of beauty, but from now on women patronising native beauty specialists will be liable to imprisonment for five years, and the specialist to ten years’ penal servitude.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 7
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82BLACK BELLES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 7
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