She then introduced the speaker, Jackie Mafi, who gave us an amazing look at fashion and beauty through time, “Out of Fashion – The Pride and the Pain.”
In ancient Egypt, lead-based eye make-up was used to stop disease spread by flies and in later times lead was used to make white paste as a cosmetic foundation.
Jackie reminded us that today UK cosmetics and perfumes and women’s fashions and men’s grooming products raise millions.
Heavy make-up covered the sores of syphilis and mouse-skin eyebrows were popular in the 1700s.
Wigs got very dirty and needed boiling.
Later on, crinolines caught fire and green dyes were full of arsenic.
Tight corsets affected breathing and men’s celluloid collars could choke.
Clothes became more comfortable by the 20th century but women’s perms were unsafe.
In China, foot-binding lasted into our own time.
(Jackie pointed out that botox and sunbeds would have seemed stupid to our ancestors!)
Ann Hambleton thanked Jackie for a marvellous talk which we all enjoyed.
After tea served by Ann and Margaret Fletcher, Jackie judged the March competition (a scarf).
Doreen Procter and Chris Wilkinson came first and second.
There were 11 entries.
This was Sundial’s birthday month, with cake at the tea interval.
There were 5 birthday girls and Chris Wilkinson won the bouquet of tulips.
Eileen thanked Trudy for the flowers.
Brenda gave details on the outing to “Evita” – one place left.
The lunch club will meet at Rokka on the 26th March.
Margaret Fletcher had tickets for Mosslands on 16th April.
A special event this afternoon was the annual award for competition points, won by Jean Riley.
There are later spring and summer events planned, also “Anything Goes” in October.
The meeting closed with a raffle.
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