BEARDED WOMEN.
Georges Marin, a French scientist, states that the number of women having slight growths of hair on their lips and chins has increased 10 per cent. Some professors say that the indications for the near future are that women will become bearded and moustached. Scientists are investigating why hair develops on women’s upper lips and chins. The opinion of the majority is that the increasing masculinism of modern women in making them like men. Cocktails and cigarettes are inducing (he growth of hair, statistics show, and also certain chemicals used ns-ingredients in cosmetics. A leading modiste says veils are becoming more and more fashionable because numerous society women tire embarrassed bv silken fringes on their lips and chins.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2589, 5 June 1923, Page 4
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120BEARDED WOMEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2589, 5 June 1923, Page 4
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