article · Issue No. 7, July 1947 · p. 19

Set Your Legs Free... to the Light

اطلقي ساقيكِ .. للنور

Winter has gone, and with it have gone the cold and the frost. And now summer has appeared, bringing you warmth and allurement...
Leave off, then, stockings of every kind, nylon and otherwise, and set your legs free to the light...
But... are your legs beautiful? You can answer "Yes," without any shyness or fear. For if you give them a little care, they will become, beyond doubt, beautiful in high degree.

This care is summed up as follows:

First — Rub your legs every day with lukewarm water and soap.

Second — Remove the hair from the skin with a razor blade. Then use a solution of ammonia, and follow it with a solution of peroxide. These two solutions remove every trace of the hair and lengthen the time before it grows back again.

Third — Expose your legs to the sun, but only after anointing them with a special oil which you will find in all the pharmacies. It helps to color your skin a beautiful coppery shade.

For gleaming white skin is not in favor these days, because it suggests that you are not athletic.

With this simple care, Madam, your legs can become beautiful...

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