The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-04-15

SonallCy DuC now That undetlnable
something is labeled glamour" The
glamour girl has been popular now
for nearly three years. Of course
every three or four years, the popular
type changes but the glamor girl is
different from her preceding types in
age. The fiapper, "It" girl, and the
personality girl were youthful in their
appearance, mannerisms and vocabu-
larry, while the present day glamour
girl is thirtyish. Of course, she NAV
be only eighteen or twenty-five but
she tries to look like thirty. The
young girls of today are being cheated
OF their principal asset-their youth.
They have been told by fashion autho-
rites (who are not young and pretty,
as rule) that chic and glamour are
much more important than beauty
and youth. The fashion experts for
got to add that a girl who has youth
doesn't need glamour. It's really quite
simple to be a glamour girl (that is,
if you want to-. Here's the recipe:
(but don't take it too seriously. Don't
try to look pretty; in fact, try to avoid
1t II possible. Wear your hair long.
preferably to the shoulders in a screen
starish bob. Don't wear rouge but
wear lots of powder, about three
shades lighter than your natural COM
pleXion. Wear dark red lipstick and
dark red nail polish on your mandarin
claws. (fingernails to you). Believe
it or not, slightly pulled eyes are quite
desirable and you can add a touch of
eveshadow to give your eyes the de-
sired tired look. If you don't have
sinus trouble, you should try to look
as if you did A near-sighted souint
is supposed to give an air of mystery
and sOphistication and adds to your
mask OF Indifference. In daytime, YOU
must only wear two colOrs-black or
passionate purple. Wear a comic hat
the funnier the better-on top of
your long glamour curls. In the even
ing. don an uplift bra and pour YOUR
self into black or lame gown that
definitely is ultra-sophisticated And
there you emerge-a Glamour Girl!
Then, all you'll have to do is go about
looking bored and acting tired. Still
that's not all! The glamor girl must
get around. She must attend all the
swanky functions and make the rounds
OF all the spots that are "smart" in
her set. This, so she will have her
name in the social and gossip columns
regularly. And every two months or
so, she must have her picture in the
paper. Her mother spent her time
pressing flowers in a book of poems:
but the Glamour Girl devotes hours
to FASTING pictures and clippings of
herself in scrapbook. Even though
GIG. will often have to beg a man
to take her about she must never have
wonderful time. 1t doesn't suit her
type. She must never forget her dead
pan look and her bored, sulky moods.
And naturally she must not concen-
trate on her escort; she must spend
her time seeing and being seen. She
must greet all the important socialites
with "hello darling!" From the
t1apper of ten years ago to the gla
mour gal of today is quite step and
where do we girls go from here? The
Glamour Girl is passe now because she
has been too overpublicised and vari-
ETY. is the spice of life. Of course.
I'm no crystal-gazer but I'd like to
make prediction with my fingers
crossed). Fashions always play an
important part in the popular type,
so with the new, frilly, feminine
clothes we are wearing this spring.
and with the increasing popularity of
pinky nailpolish and subtle makeup,
I'll predict that our 1939-4O girl will
be of the feminine, "clinging-vine"
type.