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March 6, 1913
The Kanabec County Times
Kanabec County, Minnesota
What is this article about?
In France, women are adopting yellow face powder to achieve a healthy, sunburned complexion, replacing the traditional pearl white powder. This trend, seen across social classes in Paris, is attributed to a professional beauty who popularized it.
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YELLOW POWDER IN FASHION
Women of France Now Affect Complexion Showing a Suggestion of Sunburn.
This is the day of the yellow complexion in France. Gone is the fashion of the pearl white powder with which the French woman used to cover her face, achieving a peaches and cream effect or more often a chalky and interesting pallor. Now, to be really in the mode, a woman must use a yellow powder which gives the skin a slight suggestion of sunburn, a good healthy look which might have been brought back from the Swiss mountains or the Egyptian deserts.
One sees this yellow powder used everywhere, at the opera and the theater, in the drawing room and in the Bois de Boulogne, while the grisettes and the little ladies of Montmartre and St. Michelle, quick to follow the fashions, are also adopting it. There is much discussion as to how such a fashion started. The favorite explanation is that a certain professional beauty whose skin refused the pearl powder and delicate pink rouge finally resigned herself to using the yellow powder and appearing healthy and sunburned, and she looked so charming that she started the vogue of the yellow skin, which all Paris is following.
Women of France Now Affect Complexion Showing a Suggestion of Sunburn.
This is the day of the yellow complexion in France. Gone is the fashion of the pearl white powder with which the French woman used to cover her face, achieving a peaches and cream effect or more often a chalky and interesting pallor. Now, to be really in the mode, a woman must use a yellow powder which gives the skin a slight suggestion of sunburn, a good healthy look which might have been brought back from the Swiss mountains or the Egyptian deserts.
One sees this yellow powder used everywhere, at the opera and the theater, in the drawing room and in the Bois de Boulogne, while the grisettes and the little ladies of Montmartre and St. Michelle, quick to follow the fashions, are also adopting it. There is much discussion as to how such a fashion started. The favorite explanation is that a certain professional beauty whose skin refused the pearl powder and delicate pink rouge finally resigned herself to using the yellow powder and appearing healthy and sunburned, and she looked so charming that she started the vogue of the yellow skin, which all Paris is following.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Yellow Powder
French Fashion
Sunburn Complexion
Paris Vogue
Professional Beauty
What entities or persons were involved?
Professional Beauty
Where did it happen?
France, Paris
Story Details
Key Persons
Professional Beauty
Location
France, Paris
Story Details
French women replace pearl white powder with yellow powder for a sunburned, healthy look, adopted across social classes from opera to Montmartre; originated with a professional beauty whose skin suited it, charming Paris into the vogue.