Paris Beauty Show.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 81, 20 December 1884, Page 5

Paris Beauty Show.

Preparations for the Paris Beauty Show, which is to take the place of the projected Baby Show forbidden by the authorities in consequence of the representations of the faculty, are in active progress. The idea is not an absolutely new one. To say nothing of the exhibition of the sort held on Mount Ida 3,000 years ago, a beauty show was organised in Pesth last year or the year before, and the photograph of the winner was to be seen in the stationers' windows all over Europe. And beauty shows limited to the beauties of the bar are not unknown in London and some of the large cities in the United States. Our barmaids are, M. O'Rell tells his readers, the handsomest women he has seen in England — " supre*mement belles" he describes some of them. The show is to be open to beauties of every nationality ; and if his countrymen are of M. O'Rell's way of thinking, a picked bevy of the "young ladies " who do the honours of our refreshment counters would have nothing to fear from the judgment of the modern Paris. — "St. James's Gazette."

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