FASHIONS IN FACES.
PIGMENTS NOW UNPOPULAR. WOMEN CHANGING THEIR MINDS. Is It possible that the fashion of /inearing women’s faces with all sorts of pigments is going out? There have been rumours that the' youngest generation Is revolting, and now comes the news that among the' demands of a group of Paris midinettes on strike was that the management should no longer require them to make-up their faces when on duty. If this requirement really exists it would be going one better or worse) than that of the ladies in an old “Punch” who, upon a change of fashion, stood in their straight skirts indignantly asking of their cook: “What have you done witluyour crinoline. Mary Jane? Go and put it on at once.” If the Parisian ladies are giving up painting their faces the class-con-scious midinette will not want to be behind the fashion. So we go round and round, and the beauty of one decade Is the disgust of the next
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Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19991, 15 September 1936, Page 3
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