BEAUTY REGAINED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 14

BEAUTY REGAINED

What Pxastic Surgeons Have Achieved N LATEST OPERATIONS You know all about face lifts, of ■ course. Many of you will have laugh- j ed and said "appalling vanity— andj anyway they always show." ^ j ; But have you heard of complete "run-j overs" from ankles to crowns which| jWill give. you a completely how bodyj ,and face? • J .Well, that's what you can get to-dayj ^ ,in this country, .(says a writer in an •English publication). ; Plastic surgeons will do practically, anything with their knives— -provided' 'of course it is worth the risk. , | New noses formed from a piec.e of bofie from your rib and some skin fromj your forearm aTe an old story. New eyelids and penttanently thinned eye-' brows are fairly new. i Let'a take a woman of eay fifty who; jis overweight. and a little tired of face. • i u! / i Body first. '•* ' •' *' She can have rolls (sometimca pounds in weight) of f at removed from ankles, fchighs, buttocks and stomach to begia with. v. Once when I was discussing these operations with a plastic surgeon I said r- "Why not make'her oxercisef I don't like .this knife idea." "My dear lady*" xeplied tho geon, "I can take oft in six minnteo what it would take that woman aix months to remove by exerciso-Htnd l| ean make a neater finish too." ' And he.'s right* • • :'"-r,r| If you want the details oi tio epew fcions here they are. . An incision is made in tho top tkin. frhen the fatty tissue nnderneath kl loosened and scooped onfei Then the top skin— -with shaped pieeo temoved— is stitched qp again tightly and you are. slender; again. ! The most in demand of all hody bperations aTe braast lift»j i The incision in this case is. mede on* - jSprneath the breast so that tho fca« floes not show, then fat is removed and jthe skin again stitehed up^ Sometimes it is necessaTy ta temovo jbhe nipple and replace it higher n|^ but jfchis is done in such a way that the nor* . faial functioning of the breast is not in* jfcerf ered with at all* , In iact it has been found that with bver-developed breasts an operatioa- Of jfchis kind increases the health of thij piammary glands rathfis than deereasi Ingthem. I A .very great number Of film tiar^ ^tave had such operations — particnlarly )ifter maternity. : So great is the demand for this operai tion that one London surgeon keeps an , pnormous portfolio of photographs of "before" and "after'' to show patients prhat they may expect from their parfcicular type. • Abont a fortnight in a nursing homS Is the required time for this operation, Ihe cost is anything from twenty-five guineas to a huhdred-- according to pour pocket. The removal Of lines from neck tn'df face is next in popularity* Sometimes this means a small whito 3 icar underneath. the ear and chin— pometimes it can be completely hidden in the hair. Eound the eyes the operations become ■ most delicate — in fact they are sometimes performed by men who are elso : Dphthalmic surgeons. { New skin for nnderneath the eyes is , swivelled round from the tight ©a ; fche temples and then the baggy skin I from nnder the eye is stitched back l fcightly ' over the temples. On the lids ) fchemselves you have to have new skin I from your upper arm or stomach, and j here the job looks more like an engini eer's plan than'a doctor'a siirgery be-i j cause the shape of skin with the mostj j exact measurements is drawn out with' pencil and paper before it is cnt. I Thinning eyebrows is a simple 30b. ' !SJ thin strip of hair is taken out all ■ along the length of the eyebrow 'and I right in its centre. - Then you are stitched np again and in [ so doing you not only get whatever I shape you want in eyebrow but you also, j gefc some of the. forehead lines tighten-r ed out as well. j There are, of course, many fancyj ' operations you can buy for yourselves* You can have your ears made flat to fche head, your hair brought farthet flown on your forehead, your moutlj made wider and your lips fuller. , Your nostrils can be made thinner and more closed and you can, if you really think it necessary, have new eyelashes properly grafted on to your lids. These are usually taken from the short hair at the back of yonr neck. In nearly all these operations you ara given a local anaesthetic only' and it will take a fortnight for the scars to heal and another f ew weeks for electric treatment to fade them out. The risk is nil if you go to a qualified jplastic surgeon as he gives you a; ithorough overhaul first to see that your Wood is iu good condition. But the cost is, of course, high. Twenty-five guineas is the cheapest figure I have heard quoted for a minor beautifier, and once I came across a body slimmer that had cost the- patient rne thousand guineas. In her case, kowever, her hushand was quite delighted to pay — in fact it was the husband who first approaehei the surgeon for the job to be done. The husband, I may add, was a Frenchman. Women are not the only-' eustomer» for the knife. Men are quite frequent clients as well. They have asked to have their noses made mueh smaller, to have thick moustaches grafted on their lips, to have their eyes wider and their necks thinner. And if they eau pay and they are ifaealthy, they get it — why. not? .