- A month later stocking advertisements with my legs were published in different magazines!

My mother and aunt were making a new catalog and this time the model was to be a typical sweet girl. The dresses were a new collection of special teenage design, mini dresses and mini skirts which fashion had just begun to make popular. Our firm found it important to be among the first with this new fashion and we also found it important that the dresses be as feminine as possible with bows and ruffles, and as romantic and girlish as possible.

My long hair was by nature rather dark brown and a pony tail of the same color was attached to my hair. I was made up to have big surprised eyes and a real peach tint. I wore long white nylon stockings, but on some of the photos I had to wear white knee socks. The shoes were black patent leather with straps and low heels. The dresses were mostly silk satin and nylon. The poses were varied — sitting, standing, and lying. When I modeled a pinafore dress and a tunic two long plaits were at- tached to my own hair. “Oh how lovely and sweet!" my aunt said.

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After the photo season there was a pause for some months. During this time I underwent a new transformation. On the photos in the next catalog I ought to look different. Both my mother and aunt decided that I now should be a blond a blond like themselves! The transformation took place in our bathroom where my aunt professionally bleached my hair, just as she once had bleached the hair of my mother. It was a com- plete transformation. After drying and a home perm a small hairpiece in my new color was pinned to my hair in order to give my hair more style and make the coiffure taller. Naturally that was only for home use. At the art school I appeared only with my own hair that was now blond. My schoolfellows stared a little but soon they did not care. Several of the girls were bleached, too. And also some of the boys. Such a thing was not uncommon among young students at the academy.

My mother, my aunt and I had all spoken about pierced ears. Now it was fashionable again to wear earrings in pierced ears both among young girls and ladies. Both my mother and aunt had gotten their ears pierced and it was decided that for the next photos I ought to have mine pierced too. As I was interested in making the photos as authentic as possible I naturally agreed.

It was again my aunt who took care of that and did the small opera- tion. She had a special tong from the time she was a beauty expert. She