Why such a big deal on noses? And in 1911, it is not like these women could head into town for a chisel job. But here it is. Apparently, you, too, can get an empire nose just by tweaking your horn each night.
The Empire Nose In Fashion
Most women never realize it, but fashions in noses change almost as often as modes in clothes. The tip tilted, the Grecian and Roman nose have had their day, and now it’s the empire nose that is in style. Perhaps it is because the empire nose accords better with the empire fashions of the season or because it goes better with the modish hats. Whatever it is, beauty specialists are remolding noses and making them the shape they ought to be, according to the style.
This fashionable nose has a sharp tip. This does not mean the downward inquisitive type, but, rather, the French variety of tip, the nose that is small, but straight, coming to a point at the tip.
To get this sharp tip the specialists squeeze the end of the nose with cold cream until it comes to a point, and the patient continues the treatment herself. Ten squeezes night and morning upon the tip of the nose will bring it to a point in a short while.
The autumn winds play havoc with the nose, and women who want to be pretty must learn how to protect them. The following is how a Frenchwoman does the trick: Before going out in the morning she dashes her nose with hot water, plenty of it; enough to heat the skin. Then into this warm nose she rubs cream of milk. When it has dried she puts on powder.
She rubs powder into the skin until her nose is as white as chalk, whiter than any nose you ever saw in your life. And when she does this she puts on a heavy veil. The result is that the raw winds cannot smite the skin of her nose; it is well protected. Later when she comes home she dusts off the superfluous powder and her nose is pretty for the day.
Source: The Topeka State Journal. Newspaper. November 03, 1911.
