Undiscovered British Beauties
Mavis Bailey of Hitchin, Herts. The Country Girl
MAVIS BAILEY is 17 and loves it-the excitement of her first dances, her job, arid the feeling of independence after she said goodbye to school last year. Mavis, who lives at home with her mother and local newspaper reporter brother, John, in Willian Road. Hitchin, Hertfordshire, is a typist in the Hitchin branch of the great de Havilland Aircraft Company.
She works in an office with several other girls and has made many friends amongst them. But Mavis doesn't plan to spend all her days at a typewriter. "My mother is hoping to buy a sweet shop, and I will help her manage it." she told us.
It won't be her first taste of working in a shop-she had a Saturday job in a drapery store when she was still at school. "Besides the pocket money, it was good fun meeting so many different types of customers."
Her secret dream
Ever since she was old enough to read the fashion magazines, Mavis has dreamt about a job as a model. "I long to glide through a room in all those fabulous clothes," she sighed, "and who knows, perhaps one day I will."
Already Mavis has very good fashion sense, and wins many compliments and partners when she wears some of the dresses she has made herself to the Saturday night dances at Hitchin Town Hall. But even for the most special dates, she uses very little make-up. 'I think it's silly to cover up your natural complexion when you're young," she said sensibly.
Red-letter days are when a boy friend invites her to the theatre or to dine in London's West End. "I get-such a thrill out of seeing all the lights, the people and the glamorous places," she said. "But I love the country, too-I suppose it's because I've always lived there."
Walks to work
And Mavis makes the most of that. At week-ends she always takes the family poodle for long walks through the woods near her home and comes home with her hands full of primroses and violets.
Every morning she scorns the local bus, preferring to walk the mile to and from the office. "It does wonders for your figure," she smiled. "And it gives you an enormous appetite."
Marriage is just a far distant thought at the moment, but Mavis has some firm views about it. "I want to get married at 22, to a man about four years older than me."
But we wouldn't be surprised if someone didn’t make her change her mind before then!
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