June Dally-Watkins
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June Marie Dally-Watkins OAM (13 June 1927 – 22 February 2020) was an Australian businesswoman and fashion model. She was born in Sydney.
Life
[change | change source]In 1950 she started the Southern Hemisphere's first personal development school in Sydney to train young women in etiquette and deportment. A year later, she started Australia's first model agency and modelling school and later established a Business Finishing College.[1]
She was featured on the popular Australian television show Bogan Hunters on 7mate in 2014.[2]
In 2019, she was teaching etiquette to women in China.[3]
Watkins died on 22 February 2020 in Sydney, aged 92.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "WHEN MODELS WERE FETED LIKE FILM STARS". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 5 March 1975. p. 4. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ↑ "Nanna Shazza and Justin Gilbert from Bogan Hunters get a makeover". News Limited. 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ↑ Lee, Betty (2019-02-23). "China's craze for etiquette queen June Dally-Watkins". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
- ↑ "'Every woman has a right to be beautiful': Dally-Watkins dead at 92". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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