FEAR OF PRETTINESS
“There is now such a deadly fear of prettiness,” Sir Frank Dicksee, the Royal Academy president, told students recently, “that to avoid any suspicion of its presence any sin is considered not only justified, but admirable. The old standards of beauty are abandoned, and a new order, founded on a negroid or other barbaric type, usurps their place, and as the old-fashioned idea of beauty is asso_ciated with health, so that also must be shunned, and samples of disease are paraded. It would seem that all the senses are to take fresh orders from a new-found source; the scent of sweet lavender nas to yield to the odour of patchouli, and music must be borrowed from the syncopated patter of the negro population of America.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 278, 14 February 1928, Page 5
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128FEAR OF PRETTINESS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 278, 14 February 1928, Page 5
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