All the World’s a Stage

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Make-Up, Costumes, and Masks for the Stage
Bruun-Rasmussen and Petersen
1976

Not only is this book old, but it’s downright offensive too!  We have different standards of political correctness these days (thank goodness…), and some of the old books you find in libraries do not reflect that.  One more reason to keep public library collections up to date!  This, by the way, is cataloged as juvenile fiction.

How to make “falsies”:

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And my personal favorite, the ever-offensive “Chinese coolie” look with directions on how to make your eyes look more “Oriental” (seriously??):

Old-fashioned Chinese coolie