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PRETTY by all means

The cities may be falling apart but the citizens are surely keeping themselves pasted together. Never, no never, has so much drastic self-improvement gone on (even derrieres are being revised). 

And the new trend is to snip-and-tell. By her outspoken example, Amy Vanderbilt has made the face-hike almost a matter of courtesy. Francine Farkas of Alexander's told a fashion show audience that her pretty nose was a put-up job. Phyllis Diller updates the ugly duckling into swan story, looking sort of Claudette Colbert with that whole new face (and tells about it funny, too). David Susskind had a whole panel of women (and men) who were glad glad glad they'd taken the plastic surgery way. And this very week I'm watching the Barbara Walters show where big-name experts are telling some of the ways to get gorgeous. 

The subject fascinates me and, no, I won't recommend a perfectly great face fixer at $2,500, but how about some teeny items that can help till the doctor comes?

"It peps up my skin and cleans it cleaner than anything ever has. The phiz looks incomparably clearer and brighter and finer. So, gee, thanks." For what it may very well be worth to you, I pass along this glowy report by my tester of the 5-minute daily facial treatment, Dermabrase/35, by Irma Shorell. It's $10, in choice stores like Saks Fifth Avenue. 

Ladies are crazy about a whole new school of little beauty "automatics" for laying on the makeup. Object, less fuss, more expertise. Look at the various versions for lips, eyes, etc., by Elizabeth Arden, Revlon, Coty, Polly Bergen, Charles of the Ritz, Helena Rubinstein and other classy facemakers. Clever. Also, Max Factor's new comb-on mascara is a cinch to get on straight. And Blushamatic is the Menley & James Love-machine that brings the roses to your cheeks with one click of its brush. All of these are fun, only a few bucks and each does offer something a little bit extra. 

While the whole idea today is to look softly firm but bra-less, it doesn't always work out. (But keep away from those silicones, they're dangerous for this area.) Never mind, I've found a group of new bras that not only improve the view from the front, they feel so good, smooth as a dose of luscious lotion. Lily of France makes them in many styles, soft little slings, plunged jobs, underwired if wanted, convertibles to take care of bareback and halter toppings. The fabric is double knit Qiana and feels like silk, pure and simple. $5 to $7, at Bloomingdale's, among others. 

The prettiest bunch of people I've seen recently had never heard of makeup, let alone face-lifts. They were irresistible, the 2 and 3 year old ladies that Saks Fifth Avenue called in to model their exclusive new collection by Adolfo. And talk about understated chic. . . . 

A Miss Michelle Bondi, 2, got the biggest hand in a lacy pink and white party dress. It looked like spun sugar but was, like all the other Little Adolfos, hand-knitted or crocheted of a synthetic yarn that can even fling into a washing machine. $55, wow, but fatuous godmothers are getting it. All 12 of the styles could make even a child-hater want to buy something. Anyway, look at them in the Salon des Petits, even if you're just after a $9 ruffled pinafore in the regular kiddo's department outside. Everything's on the 2nd Floor, where all the stuff for this age group, from spitters-up to size 6x, I find pretty, pretty, pretty. Take a tot to lunch. 

ON A PERSONAL BIAS by Bernice Peck

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