Curves Are OUT
p. 25 · Read in the full issue
In Vietnam!
Prom our Noumea Correspondent
Pretty young Vietnamese girls
in New Caledonia have been given some food for thought lately, following the news that curves are not wanted in Com munist North Vietnam.
THE unhappy facts have come to New Caledonia in letters from Vietnamese who have now settled in their “homeland” after being re patriated from New Caledonia in the last nine months or so. A big num ber of the Viets was in fact born in New Caledonia.
Many requests have been sent to Noumea for soap and toilet articles, because they are in short supply back home. One little “sex kitten”, who was known in Noumea for her dress and perfume, has complained that in North Vietnam western dress is tabu. She has to wear regulation trousers and jacket, generally black.
The trousers must be worn volu minous, so as not to accent her curves.
Pretty Vietnamese girls in New Caledonia are fond of wearing cling ing satin and silk garments, and there have never been any com plaints over here. The French under stand these things.
They don't like curves in Communist Vietnam.
A pity. This pretty young New Caledonian Vietnamese was on one of the first repatria tion contingents.