POST-WAR DANDIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 20 July 1920, Page 7

POST-WAR DANDIES.

THE CHOICE OF CREAMS. Luxuries for the modern dandy, who has apparently little to learn from the ladies in the uses of "special preparations," formed a feature of the Chemists' Exhibition in London. "It may be an after-war reaction." said a salesman to a Daily Chronicle correspondent, "but the fact remains that a large body of men do not nowadays disdain the use 6f_ perfumes, washes, or creams." He drew a delightful word-picture of the possibilities offered to the 1920 exquisite daily breathing the odours of Araby, and gave illustration to his remarks by producing the articles be named. "Rising nimbly at 8.30, the first thing to do is to select what harmony of scent he shall use for the day. Here," waving to a row of phials, "are 40 different sorts of special extracts symbolising everything lovely, from a 'golden" ni'orning' to a 'vision of India.' EQUIPPED FOR THE BATH. "Sponging the night-cream from his complexion, he goe s to the bath armed with crystal-shaped soaps, perfumed boxes of bath-dust, eau-de-Cologne solidifiod. and perhaps a lavender shampoo powder. They arc all here!" "He comes down with a glad smile, and artlessly flings a tabloid into a bowl, with which liquid he toilettes his teeth, and proceeds to spill some

polishing powder upon his nails. "Manicure complete, he dallies with his razor, dusts his complexion with talc, seizes a box of solid brilliantine to annoint his hair.

"ICED" PERFUME AND CACHOUS "Slightly flushed with exertion, may be, he applies sticks of 'iced' perfume to his brow (they can be obtained in many odours'), and is intrigued with a row of dainty sprays filled with a fewdrops of the absolute essence of, say, jasmine."

"And. then?" queried the writer. "Then, thoughtfully sucking a ca chou, he is ready to go out and appro eiate the glories of nature in spring time",'" concluded the happy salesman.