She brought good posture and good manners to Australia, a herculean task but vital for those who aspired to the finer things of life. Those who didn't weren't worth bothering about.
Her future seemed quite giddy-making for a teenager yet, while she nursed ambitions to be a mail order catalogue model, her mother, a powerful influence on her life until she died in 1975, encouraged her to open her own modelling class, a more lucrative pursuit.But first she was named Australia's model of the year in 1949 and, with that accolade beneath her belt, she took the plunge and in 1950 finally opened the June Dally-Watkins School of Deportment.
In 1951 she saw a new business opportunity and opened the first model agency in the southern hemisphere, establishing the careers of many top-notch fashion models and, over the years, launching 18 pageant queens from Miss New South Wales to Miss World and Miss Universe. In the 1970s, she introduced a Men's Executive Course to turn timid males into confident gentlemen.She deplored the general lack of good manners in Australian males.
And at her desk she sat ramrod, impeccably dressed, hair groomed, make-up flawless, morning to night, a superb example of the product she aimed to turn out with the guidance of Miss Dally, as her students affectionately called her. They had four children, Carel, Timothy, Marc and Lisa, but the union was not to last. In 1968 they divorced, her hectic work ethic at a time when wives stayed home to cosset hubby, proved too much.
Sydney crap.
Sloppy girls and women everywhere, fishing for Facebook and Instagram likes their addictions.
Lovely woman, always the lady
1petermartin Remember her in Sydney in '50s.
Very sweet if a little old fashioned. My sister learned how to do her nails and accessorise at her school. She was always more lady like than I was.
What a total crock it all was back in the day. Mum ground the manners into me too. I made the choice to wear what I liked and be as relaxed as I pleased despite the total rubbish they all preached. Trying to turn out a bunch of robot women set Australia back decades.
She sure was a lovely old Toff.
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