Women are Peacocks at Heart

1920

New York. — "Every woman in the world is a peacock at heart."

So says Dolores, termed the most beautiful creature God ever made by Florenz Ziegfeld in whose Midnight Frolic she appears, and the only actual human peacock in existence!

Women, according to Dolores, cannot resist the impulse to make themselves beautiful any more than can the peacock, although that kingly bird is the male of his species. And this impulse begins almost as soon as a girl is able to talk as a baby.

"I have noted the impulse in girl babies as young as 18 months." says Dolores. "Even at that age a girl baby will crow with delight over a pretty dress that particularly strikes her fancy. And when a girl is four years old the instinct is fully developed and she begins to take interest in ribbons, laces, and all sorts of things to enhance her childish beauty.

"With maturity comes the desire not only to make herself beautiful in her own eyes but the eyes of her boy friends as well. And with young womanhood comes the desire to hold whatever good looks she has, for at that age a woman instinctively realizes that beauty is a fleeting thing.

"Every woman knows that clothes — good clothes — enhance her beauty and for that reason she longs for and gets if possible the pretty things she thinks will show her charms to the greatest advantage.

"It is that instinct that has always made impossible and always will make impossible that foolish idea about standardizing women's dress."