Task 2. Fashion Model.
We've all seen them on TV commercials, looking out at us from the covers of glossy magazines, or showing off the latest creations from Pairs, and it must have seemed to us that they have lives which are all glamour.

Jeffrey Ingrams has been delving into the world of the fashion model and has come up with some interesting facts.

The average model can earn roughly the same as a top secretary on the basis, that is, that she's a freelance with an agent who'll send her out for auditions and interviews and get work for her.

Denise Harper is a model agent. The Central Model agency, in which she's a partner is a very closely associated with the Metropolitan Academy of Modelling, where dozens of aspiring models have come over the years to pay their money to take a basic course in the techniques of being a model.

Just over 5 years ago, one such aspiring model was 18-year-old Margaret Connor, fresh from school. Your mother has told you that you're a pretty girl, and you think that you're God's gift. You are not of course.

But the Academy gives you the works, how to do make-up, how to walk, how to do your hair, dress sense, the lot.

Now before we go any further, I really ought to give you some idea of what Margaret looks like. She's about 5 feet 8 inches tall, with shoulder-length auburn hair, hazel eyes and a ready smile.

Like Margaret, every model has her index card which potential clients can keep in their files to refer to. When not working, Margaret is a rather prettier-than-average girl next door, but her photograph alone seemed to show that she can be as versatile and as fashionable as anyone might want.