Back to tonight, Dorothy went into the bathroom and had a quick flannel wash, making sure there was little steam, as her beehive hairstyle would fall. Once dry, she got dressed again in a bedroom bra and short corset, this was done as quickly as she could, but she was hampered by her 1โ long nails, and she had to be very careful as Dave got so angry if she broke one. Dorothy took care not to check the mirror until she was covered, as she really did not want reminding of how her 50 year old, overweight body sagged without the buttressing of her resolute foundation garments. Dave was of the same opinion and got angry if she walked past him in the nude. He wanted her looking like a pneumatic pinup girl at all times. She sat down at her dressing table, put her glasses back on and pulled on a pair of dark seamed nylons and then stretched around to clip the eight wide garters tight, slipped her 5โ stilettos back on and started on her make up. She removed her glasses and squinted at the mirror. Dave did not like her wearing glasses and certainly not out at night. If they went to the cinema, the only pair she was allowed to wear were some pink, horn rimmed glasses with rhinestones all over them.
First, she cleaned off her restrained daytime face and started on her โfullโ evening look. Two layers of her heavy pinkish pancake on her face, with a lighter layer below and to the sides to try to hide her burgeoning double chin and jowls. Next came the pink blusher high on her cheeks. Then, with a little grimace came, her largest set of black false eyelashes, Daveโs Favourite, they were so big and heavy that by the end of the night her eyes would be sagging. She carefully glued them and adjusted them so that they stuck out a full half an inch, and then 5 layers of thick mascara top and bottom, dusting them between each application to get a thicker effect. When they were finished, it was so thick she could hardly blink. Next came the three bands of eye shadow, starting on her lids with a deep pink, blending to a light pink at the top, stretching from the bridge of her nose well out to above her cheeks in an extended teardrop shape. Above she used a thick black eyebrow pencil to create high arched brows. Out came the thick, deep pink lipstick and she built up 3 layers and edged her lips with eye pencil. She wiped off the excess with a tissue and she was done. She peered dolefully through the thick lashes at her reflection and frowned. No matter how much makeup she applied, there was no hiding it, she was getting old. Dave insisted she wear this much makeup every time they went out and had for years, at least every other women was wearing a lot these days. She checked her hair, her high peroxide blonde beehive had been freshly done this morning. She tidied up a few tendrils back and front and frosted it with half a can of rigid hairspray. She had been a blonde for five years now, at first in a Jayne Mansfield style, who Dave worshipped, but when the bouffant styles had come around, he got Dorothy to pile hers higher and now with her beehive it stood fully 12โ high, rising in an inverted cone, and on occasion it had been even higher.
Dave loved it, but she loathed it. It was, so false, and to hold it steady until the next weekโs appointment, it was absolutely solid with lacquer. She shook her head and it did not move an inch. She finished off by applying dabs of perfume to what little flesh was still showing. It was Daveโs favourite, but Dorothy found it so overpowering it sometimes made her feel sick.
Right, finished! She popped on her glasses and got up. She hoped Dave was not feeling too amorous when he got home, as he would mess up her face and it would take ages to repair. She went to the wardrobe and pulled out the new boots. She was going to be very embarrassed wearing them on their first trip out, she would even much prefer her normal stilettoโs. It was not that she had not worn boots before, there were several pairs in the wardrobe, it was that she had not worn them outside the flat. It would have been seen as too โkinky.โ But now, they were just in fashion sparked off by Honor Blackman in the TV program the Avengers. But Honor never wore anything like these. They had 7โ heels; which was just about as high as she could manage even in the flat. The boots were close laced with shiny black laces all the way up to the top of her thighs. Dave had ordered them especially from Regent Shoes and this was there first trip out.