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| Picture No | 11965526 |
| Date | 1906 |
| Description | Edwardian society women's beauty treatments 1906 |
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Edwardian ladies believed that it was their duty as a woman to look beautiful. Showing a variety of photographs of society women enduring treatment to help repair from seasons ravages. 1. Reducing weight from incessant dining-out, they would regularly take light baths in wooden cabinets. 2. To help with discoloration of facial skin, women would sit in front of a radiation blue light. 3. Magnetic bath where you lie full length with wires around, while a therapist sends pulses from a large machine - life giving apparently. 4. If your nose had gone out of fashion! It could be altered to suit your desire. 5. This equipment helped remove wrinkles by electrical massage. 6.Tonics to help with cheek, throat and neck, giving bloom and roundness.
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| Source | Photographs in 'The Bystander', 25 July 1906, page 189 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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