in fashion
p. 89 · Read in the full issue
There probably are almost as many people engaged in clothing the body as feeding it, and girls who would like to join the merry throng could do worse than read “Careers in Fashion”, by Elizabeth Grey. It is one of the Bodley Head series on careers for girls.
Clothes—about which most females have an inborn interest — don’t just mean dressmaking.
These days, as well as making them you can design them, pho tograph them, write about them, draw them, model them or sell them. It takes a medium sized book to describe all the avenues of approach.
At present, modelling is the glamour job, but according to Elizabeth Grey it seems also to have its drawbacks. Some models have to have their noses re shaped by plastic surgery; their teeth capped or their ears pinned
back.-
JT.
(Careers In Fashion. Bodley
Head. 22/6.)