1929--Beaton on beauty--outtakes

what a marvelous thing great physical beauty is it's nothing less than a living miracle it's not the result of achievement skill patience or endeavor it's just a divine happening and yet over this divine happening over this miracle fashion is triumphant after time we begin to tire of a certain Venus we take her booted beautiful granted we begin to know all about her and a new Venus must appear on the scene hater kids I mean I did it what a marvelous thing great physical beauty is it's nothing less than a living miracle it's not the result of achievement skill patience endeavor it's just a divine happening and yet over this divine happening over this miracle fashion is triumphant after a while we begin to tar up such and such ever Venus we begin to know her beauty too well we take it for granted and a new beauty comes upon the scene and she is the all-important one of the moment she's the one to whom we offer our floral tributes already we are tired of the healings of Troy who has their gaunt and statuesque and we are tired of the chubby little nailed wins and they're robust Gibson girl and also the Ziegfeld girl but the modern Venus she has a street figure and she's not unlike a messenger boy nowadays comeliness and homeliness is doggie and stale we like to see bones and for the modern Venus doesn't boast of curves that are very chic blue her legs are like arrows and her hands along and Burnett four beautiful heads and fur Nix the new Venus doesn't thirst of shapely carbs her legs like arrows and her hands a long and thin the beautiful four beautiful hands and for next and heads England thirsts of the prizewinners there are many who for their alabaster complexions their cheeks lies ice creams and their cherry lips their pansy eyes with the feathery lashes bees for these qualities should be called immortal beauties but the English failed badly about the legs and the feet and here the New Yorkers win for their wrists and their ankles on their legs and their movement they are perfect and they're essentially 1929 and whereas the former beauties lolled about and were indolent and impotent the modern Venus besides being extraordinarily decorative and amusing to paint and draw on photograph is although she looks perhaps in comparison a little anemic and almost scrawny she's very alert and energetic and intelligent and she's the first Venus to possess that estimable quality known as guts the new Venus does not boast of shapely curves her legs are like arrows her hands a long and thin and bony four beautiful necks and heads England possesses the prizewinners there aren't many whose beauty should be immortal for their alabaster complexions their cheeks like pink ice creams the cherry lips pansy eyes with feathery lashes but the English fail badly about the feet and legs and here the New Yorkers win for their wrists their ankles their legs their movements they are perfect and essentially in 1929 their figures their legs their arms their movements are perfect and essentially 1929 and whereas the beauties of yesterday lolled about and were pampered and impotent and indolent the new Venus besides being extraordinarily decorative and amusing to paint and draw and photograph is although perhaps in comparison she looks a little anemic and scrawny she's marvelously energetic and alert and intelligent and above all the 1929 Venus is the first of her type to possess that estimable quality known as gut