FACIAL BEAUTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 8

FACIAL BEAUTY

DUCHESS OF WINDSOR'S PLANS. “If the Duchess of Windsor is going to have her face lifted, the operation, if successful, will revolutionise her whole appearance and make her look years younger, - ’ .said a leading Sydney surgeon, with a knowledge of plastic surgery, recently. He was commenting on the statement that the Duchess of Windsor has engaged six nurses and the noted plas - tic surgeon, Dr I. Daniel Shorell, for an operation at Wickersham hospital. New York, early next month. “The cable message, however, states that the Duchess is simply going to have moles removed from her face,” he added. “That is a comparatively simple operation and can be done without leaving any trace or disfiguring scars.

“In face-lifting operations, a highly skilled job at any time, the incisions are made dependent upon the part of the face or neck to be treated. It might be that the incisions are to be made on the throat, the chin, or the face itself. “If the latter, then the incisions are always made well back into the hair line, and in the natural lines of the face, so that no trace is left of the operation.” Asked whether such operations destroyed the mobility of the muscles, resulting in expressionless features, the doctor said that if the operation

were done skilfully the expression of the face was not affected in any way. "There have been minor operations of this kind performed in Sydney,” said, the doctor, “but so far, to my knowledge, there has not been a complete face-lift by surgical means. It requires the highest degree of surgical. skill, but there’s no doubt that the operation takes years off the appearance of a woman.”