I remember 1960 as the time when austerity was coming to an end. Lakme had just started manufacturing cosmetics a few years back and my mother’s dressing table, which had always held just two bottles—Pond’s cold cream and Pond’s vanishing cream—suddenly started to fill up with moisturisers, mascara and lipsticks. We started looking less to the West for our aesthetics.
Taking wings: Fashionistas were young then