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No, it’s not twins. The girl on the right in this composite picture is Carol Ann Grady,
looking her normal self—while on the left she’s all gaudied up. Dick Hyde has no
trouble deciding which Carol Ann he prefers. Both 17-year-olds, helping TEEN out by
modeling for the photo, are seniors at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High SchooL
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE THINK
The Boys Like Them Natural
By EUGENE GILBERT
Gilbert Youth Research Co.
Teen-age glamour girls, slath
ered with makeup, may inspire
wolf whistles, but it's the lass with
a natural look who gets the dates.
There’s something about excess
makeup and low-cut dresses that
freezes a young man in his tracks.
"If there’s anything I desnise it’s
a girl with all that gook on her
face,” observes a high school foot
ball star. “And slinky dresses,
ugh!”
A Providence, R. 1., youth com
ments: "My steady used to try to
dress sexy to make herself look
older. But I told her it was the
fancy-pancy duds or me, and she
sure caught on in a hurry ”
All-American Girl
Almost unanimously, young men
favor the All-American Girl look.
They say heavy cake makeup, mas
cara and rouge are all right for
movie stars, but not for the girls
they want to be seen with.
A light touch of lipstick and per
haps a dab of powder are enough
to set off a girl’s natural beauty,
they think. One Bronx, N. Y.,
high school boy remarks:
“There’s a cute girl I've wanted
to take out a couple of times, but
I’m afraid to ask her. The last
time I met her at a party she
looked like her face was made up
to haunt a house.”
This young man may not know
it_ but girls today look better and
dress more neatly than girls of a
decade or two ago.
After correlating our most recent
information on high school stu
dents of yesterday and today, we
learned:
Our teen-ager dresses more
neatly than even her older sister
10 years ago. She wears sweaters
and skirts that show her figure and
thus she has to watch her weight.
Her boyish coiffeur is growing to
a flattering shoulder length and
for school she has adopted a tidy
pony tail.
She wears custume jewelry less
Teeners to Stage
Dystrophy Benefit
Teen-agers will dance to Glenn
Miller's Orchestra Saturday at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel to raise money
for muscular dystrophy victims.
The Thanksgiving dance begins
at 9 p.m. A 1957 convertible will
be raffled off and a door prize will
be a week’s stay for two at the
Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
Besides Glenn Miller’s Orchestra
with Ray McKinley, entertainers at
the dance will include Vocalist
Marilyn Mitchell and Comedian
Jackie Winston.
The dance will be sponsored by
Opsilon Lambda Phi Fraternity and
lota Gamma Phi Sorority, which
have local chapters in various
Washington high schools.
obviously and shows a taste for
simplicity. In cosmetics, which be
come a part of her daily schedule
at about 14, she prefers discreet
makeup. Consequently, she looks
more natural and a' new maturity
shines through.
Diet and Health
She also is interested in health
and diet. So is her boy friend.
This emphasis has developed
mainly in the last decade. For
example, 17.6 per cent of the teen
agers we surveyed take vitamin
capsules.
Why? "Don’t be a goof, man.”
admonishes a Texas lad. "The
healthier you are, the longer you
live. And I want to be around
for a long, long time.”
Young moderns’ diet-conscious
ness is especially apparent in girls
13-17. Thirty-six per cent of them
say they watch what they eat.
Magic Circles—
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TEEN’s cameraman caught this cheery group as the boys
piled out of a classroom at the Bell Vocational School, on
Hiatt place N.W. If yours is the face in one of the magic
circles, you win $5. Bring a copy of this issue of TEEN
to The Star’s city desk any weekday between 5 and 6 p.m.
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
Weight-watching starts young,
and 18 per cent of teen-agers con
sider themselves too hefty to be
hep. Only 5 per cent, however,
follow a strict diet regime for los
ing weight.
Complexion Concern
Os course, dieting is done for
other purposes than taking off
weight. Eleven per cent of girls
and 14 per cent of boys have what
they call "serious complexion
trouble.” But many mdre than
that—nearly one-third, in fact—
worry about’ pimples. Only 3 per
cent are on connexion diets under
doctors’ directions, but many skin
worriers are trying on their own
hook to control their eating habits
and thereby improve- their skins.
The critical age for young skins,
_ incidentally, is 14-15, and during
that time 17 per cent of all teens
think they have serious problems.
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