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we will always be in activity looking for feminine things that are just in vogue. In this way, dress- ing up will never be a dull routine of which we get tired. New variations, new combinations will still be there. Our aesthetic sense is trained by the fashion. The work at finding just the piece of fashionable feminine clothes that contribute to making us more feminine is an art, a really Femme- Art. The feeling of being sisters of the GGs is streng thened when we follow the the fashions to- gether with them.

In regard to cosmetics we find the same thing. The joy at expressing your Femme Personality is not the same if you use a crimson lipstick when the lips of all the genuine girls are painted in soft pale pink shades. When it is fashion to accentuate the eyes by a more energetic use of cosmetics, the practice becomes a must for us also. When this fashion dies away you will inevitably find that the joy at painting this part of the face has faded. It is wrong, it will be downright improper. A new fashion is born.

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The same with hairstyles and hair colors. new wig can do wonders if it is done and dyed (or bleached) in the color that is now in fashion. Some years ago it was fashionable to bleach the hair in order to become platinum or ash blonde. How wonderful is was to change my wig from dark brown to a splendid platinum blonde. It almost felt like changing personality and it was a thrill to feel that I belonged to the group of girls that had dared the jump from dark to light. With such a transformation new interesting experiments followed in finding the right colors in cosmetics and clothes for the new personality. Later on fashion changed to the almost classical dark henna-dyed hair and again their was a special joy at following the fashion.

Supposedly, the meaning of fashion is to give such thrills and to make more variations in life,

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