DIMPLE DISAPPEARS

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 14

DIMPLE DISAPPEARS

The smiling dimple, for years a subject for poets and essayists and an invariable accompaniment of the Victorian heroine, has disappeared from the face of the modern woman. That, at any rate, is the view of a woman beauty specialist, who declared to a London ‘ Daily Mail ’ reporter that tho dimple was as rare now as the long skirt or the pork-pie hat. The specialist said : Tho strain of a girl’s life now-is making Iter face harder, and the truly feminine charm of a dimple, which adds so greatly to tho attraction of a smile, is a rarity. Tho sports girl, the business girl, tin; dancing girl, all have their types of face. Tho craze for slimness of body is also reflected in tho face, so that the dimple is crowded out, for women do not like a full, round, plump face on fop of a body as slim as a lamp-post. Many of my customers have also a permanent worried look, with a quick, nervous smile, a dimple shows only in a slow smilo of genuine amusement. •V reporter who made a tour of eight photographers’ shops in the West End inspecting photographs failed to find a single one, even among the smiling portraits, in which a dimple could be scon. Yet on film posters ayid advertising posters many of the beautiful girls wore portrayed with a prominent