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Thread ID: 69980 2006-06-18 09:40:00 How does this woman look like? Renmoo (66) PC World Chat
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464125 2006-06-18 09:40:00 Hi Team,
While reading a book entitled "Of mice and men", I am at lost over the description of the appearance of a woman. If possible, could someone please draw her out?

"She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers."

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
464126 2006-06-18 09:47:00 If possible, could someone please draw her out?Draw her out ...? Well OK then, here goes!

Listen up Lady! Yes, you! The one dressed like a tart with bad fashion taste! Come on out with your hands up! This is the fashion police here! You are under arrest!


OK, that didn't work ...
Jen (38)
464127 2006-06-18 10:11:00 Sounds like someone from a burlesque house :p bob_doe_nz (92)
464128 2006-06-18 10:12:00 Sounds to me like Shirley Temple grew up and saw a bit of the world :eek:

A more modern description might go like this:

She had big lips with red lip stick to match her red fingernail polish and her eyes were well- spaced wide apart.

Her hair in tight ringlets or curls like she had just taken the rollers out. She wore a plain shapeless cotton dress and red flat soled shoes with small bunches of red fluffy ostrich feathers stuck to the sides. (sounds a bit like Metlas pink slippers to me!)

HTH
Shortcircuit (1666)
464129 2006-06-18 10:54:00 James

"What does this woman look like?" not "How....etc" or "How might/would this woman appear from this description?"

Possibly a woman from a house of ill-repute or an actress.
zqwerty (97)
464130 2006-06-18 11:13:00 Its a book, The women looks anyway you interpret her to look......

To me, sounds like a mad old slag who buys her clothes at the op-shop.

Probally a Jaffa.....MUHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Metla (12)
464131 2006-06-18 11:21:00 James....if you see her, run!!

Was going to say she looks like Betty Boop, but shortcircuit gives a fairly
accurate modern description.

Cheers
Marnie (4574)
464132 2006-06-18 11:31:00 Well, Jen's version mightn't have helped James, but it certainly gave me a few grins. Laura (43)
464133 2006-06-18 11:48:00 sounds like helen clark sambaird (47)
464134 2006-06-18 11:55:00 sounds like helen clarkNuh, I think ya got the wide spaced eyes mixed up with Helens wide spaced teeth

James, as said, it should be interpreted as you see in your mind. But to give you a clue, think Westerns and the ladies (of the night) who hung over the railings inviting the men up as they rode into town. Add half a tonne of lipstick and eye makeup, and you would be pretty close
Myth (110)
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