Bronwen Meredith Bücher

“All women have bones, flesh, fat, skin, and hair,” begins The Vogue Body and Beauty Book.“All these present problems in varying degrees.” While to go so far as to call the body problematic seems a little drastic, the 1977 book by health and beauty writer Bronwen Meredith deals with the various issues of self-maintenance in 350 in-depth pages. Full of images, recipes, and tips, Meredith’s self-possessed prose lends massive entertainment, if not unwarranted leniency in its endearingly old-fashioned tone. Stern-yet-supportive, rigorous-yet-glamorous, some suggestions are wonderfully amusing. In the forward, Meredith reminds us that “the pursuit of beauty is not narcissistic, it is an essential way to build up confidence without which there is little achievement in anything.” from Neccessary Excerpts From The Vogue Body And Beauty Book by Alex Cheung