Friday 15 March 2013

Woman November 28 1959 Page 17

What can it be? Together they've chosen the present she really wants 
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CLUB-TOGETHER PRESENTS ADD UP TO
Something special
CHRISTMAS ahead, only twenty-three shopping days, Presents to give and a list that gets longer every day, Spare cash running short, ideas even shorter,
 We're stepping in, these next three weeks, to help solve the problem, starting with, CLUB TOGETHER PRESENTS.
 Clubbing together is a rave with teens and twenties. It's fun to gang up with the other girls and surprise your friend with one super-duper present instead of lots of little ones. It's great, too, to be on the receiving end.
 So if you hear Sylvia sigh that she longs for a hair drier, but, oh dear, her budget won't stretch to it, pass the word around: 74s. 6d. (about $10.47)?  isn't so hard to collect when you pass the hat round and you can choose a drier in her favourite colour with an attachable hood for another 9s. 6d. (about $1.33)?. Dress the gift in Christmas paper and tinsel with a card signed by everyone, and Sylvia will be a very happy girl come Christmas Day. .
 Clubbing together is a wonderful way for working gals to show appreciation to the boss and any supervisor, head typist or woman executive would be delighted with a good looking powder compact. You'll find a beauty in rich jewel colours for 31s. 6d. (about $ 4.43)?.
 The office junior would love a two-tone lipstick, one side white, one side colour, at 9s. 6d. (about $1.33)? pricey, but it comes from Pairs
 Families can join forces for Mum's present, she'd love a voucher for a course of hairdos, or a glamour treatment of re-style, shampoo and set, manicure and choice of hair friction or colour rinse for about 2 gns. (about $5.90)?. Ask your local
hairdresser if he can arrange it. HELEN TEMPLE, BEAUTY EDITOR
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Devastatingly dry. sophisticated French perfume for a girl with a yen for luxury. The large bottle of Sortilege. below (it means "spell"). costs 55s. 3d. (about $7.76)?; the smaller one, sketched right, costs 20s. (about $2.81)?

 Right: gifts for gadabout girls are, left to right, exciting new Special Appointment skin perfume (the perfume chosen by a panel of men), in an elegant shell pink spray flask, 28s. 9d. (about $4.04)?; a set of lipstick and powder-plus-foundation in jewel-encrusted gold case, that make. touching up at the table almost etiquette right, 47s. 6d. (about $6.67)?; unforgettable Diorissimo perfume, scented with a bouquet of flowers, sophisticated just the same, a large bottle of eau de toilette costs 62s. (about $8.71)?; gold handbag perfume phial costs 32s. 6d. (about $4.57)?

The girl who loves pretty things will cherish this Italian ceramic jar (left) scattered with wild flowers. Maybe display it proudly on her bathroom shelf. Standing ten inches. high, it will hold a year's supply of bath salts. Price is 35s. 6d (about $4.99)?.

Right: a tiny bit of luxury for the girl who's got every thing, a bow of real champagne mink on a velvet alice band. It costs only 31s. 6d. (about $4.43)?, makes a pretty change from a hat, gives an eye catching look for parties

Roses for a budding beauty, a whole box full! There are rose bath essence, toilet water, two tablets of toilet soap, and three rose bath cubes. As a pretty bonus there's a tiny flower holder for a dressing table and two artificial roses for a party. dress. Empty, the satin-lined compartments could hold trinkets, or the fitted section lifts out to leave a glove box . . . all this for 37s. 6d. (about $4.57)?


NEXT WEEK: more ideas for exciting beauty presents

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The average price of a new home then was $12400 about 2.48 times the yearly average wage of $5010. Which was about 2.28 times the price of a new car $2200. Today?

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