"A Woman Can Always Look Younger Than She Really Is"
Magazine advertisement
By: Elizabeth Arden
Date: July 1916
Source: "A Woman Can Always Look Younger Than She Really Is." Created for Elizabeth Arden. Published in Vanity Fair, July 1916.
About the Author: Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) was born as Florence Nightingale Graham, the daughter of poor Canadian tenant farmers who had immigrated from England. She trained as a nurse, learning about skin care in the process, but instead of becoming a nurse moved to New York City. After working for a time with the E.R. Squibb pharmaceuticals company she took a job as a "treatment girl" at Eleanor Adair's beauty salon. In 1909, she opened a new salon on Fifth Avenue in partnership with Elizabeth Hubbard; the following year she changed her name to Elizabeth Arden and opened her own salon with that name. By her death in 1966, Arden had become one of the twentieth century's leading...
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