Studies in Crap: Lady, Be Lovely

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in

forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift

stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason:

Knowledge is power.

Lady, Be Lovely: A Guide to Beauty, Glamour and Sex Appeal

Author: Edyth Thornton McLeod

Publisher: Wilcox and Follett

Date: 1955

Discovered at: KCK estate sale

The Cover Promises: Foot stretching!

Neck powdering! Widow’s peak maintenance! Desperately seizing your

hand before it opens the refrigerator!

Representative Quotes

Page 13: “When a woman forgets to

say ‘thank you’ for some act of courtesy, the man should verbally

remind her of her bad manners, or lack of good ones, whichever you

prefer!”

Page 199: “I wonder what makes some

women think they can wear tight Levis of clingy denim and

wild-patterned blouses or sweaters when they are built like Big

Berthas.”