"For early-morning beauty: try a ribbon in your hair, a bright smile, a becoming brunch coat in a color your husband loves! Takes five minutes - yet his thoughts of your loveliness last the day."
Yeah; right.
It seems to me, the purpose of articles such as this one, suggest that allowing your husband to leave in the morning with the vision of you in curlers with a slightly disheveled hangover aura is somehow detrimental to a marriage. Who knew?
One of the overriding themes I find in these magazines from the 1950s and 1960s is the idea that if you are not somehow perfect, your husband will soon take a wandering eye toward someone else who is.
And we wonder where we came to have body image issues? What were we thinking?
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