Helen gurley brown

Cosmopolitan Magazine was the first magazine that gave me a dip into the world of glamour: something I had no part of, wearing my eighties glasses and Hello Kitty backpack. I remember being at a friend of my mother's, and while my mom talked to her, I snuck around and found a big wicker basket of Cosmo magazines. I picked one up and saw tons of hair and tons of makeup, lots of color, and racy bylines. I was so intrigued! When I opened the pages of Cosmo, I read about totally inappropriate…

Somewhere back in the day Helen Gurley Brown said that after a certain age the only thing a woman could rely on to improve her appearance was good posture and expensive jewelry. At least that is my recollection, though I no longer recall the exact source or context. The gender specificity, the whiff of doom in the goal, the daft simplicity, the conciseness, the candor, and the plausibility caused it to stick in my head (although my most recent earrings were bought for three dollars from a…

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Kim Alexis for Cosmopolitan US June 1980

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