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 : Exotic. Jun. 06, 1972 - Toshei waits for customers and counts the takings to date.


Exotic

Jun. 06, 1972 - Toshei waits for customers and counts the takings to date.: Toshie Prefers shoe-shining to modelling.: Tokyo's most beautiful shoe-black turns down all offers.: Toshie Higushi says she knows all about men - from their shoes. She should know, because she cleans them - with the male's feet inside them - all day long. Toshie, aged 23, keeps herself by working hard, using lots of elbow grease, and a deal of her own natural charm, and she wouldn't change her job for all the tea in China or rice in japan. Mornings see her at the corner of one of Tokyo's busy bridges, Shening the uppers or business men on the way to their offices. In rush hour over, a local hotel brings hes a pile of shoes to shine for them. After that Toshie moves her site and caters the men on their way to appointment and lunch. When it rains, she know a nice railway arch under which she shelters and work.Aerage takings at 60 a pair, are 14 shillings a day. But toshie beauty brings her other kinds of offers. She has accepted invitation to cinemas, but independence. Offers of office jobs the returns down because she likes The open air and variety of her own job. One she was persuaded to apply for a job as a model. She found herself with 50 other girl applications and heard of the interviewed. She went back to Berboots and Brushes. Toshie says shoes indicate the man. He can look good, speak nicely; but while I clean his shoes I can tell far more about his real character. I never fail.'One day, Toshie says, she'll clean the shoes of her own prince Charming. She'll know - and then she'll shine no more

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