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The Link Magazine. September 1996
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Sin and J&CPelr6 As new is as good
Connie Croker of Wear It Well and Mo White of Aznew, owners of
September Special Offer the town's best good as new clothes shops, pictured below, are
Slim! Non-surgical face-lift working together to send out the message that the items they stock
235 £15.00 are just as good as new clothing - for a fraction of the price.
Your opportunity to try the latest "There are many women out
Luxurious Chocolate micro-current which tones your there who are unaware of the qual-
Velvet - the ready to drink facial and neck muscles. ity on offer," says Connie. "Our
Results can be seen standards are very high; we will
Cambridge Diet after one treatment. only stock unmarked recent fash-
ions. There is no point in keeping
Tempted? Evening and Saturday items that will not sell. Garments
Phone your Cambridge appointments available are often worn only once, and the
Diet Counsellor on 873201 01793 772123 prices we sell at have to be seen to
ti bride Bring this advert with you. One per person be believed."
Mo reckons shopping for new
can be a dull experience. "You're
usually confronted with a limited
Buy or sell at range of styles and that season's
Al NEW colours. Customers often comment
WEAR IT on the range we have and how nice
WELL (LADIES CLOTHING) it is to mix and match to create an
individual look. There's a far
For choice, quality and Quality Autumn range greater chance of finding some- Wedding Fayre
NOW IN thing unusual with us, an out town
low priced garments for T-4 ~
any occasion,visit Wiltshire's label for example. Sunday 29 September, 11am to
largest as new clothing agency Park up and pop in. "If you have not tried us, we're 5pm. Blunsdon House Hotel
with the great reputation the furthest from a second hand Exhibits to include: photographers, dress
20 FREE SPACES
59 North Street, (of f Eastcott shop you could imagine" retailers, flodsts, car hire, life assurance,
Road), Old Town, Swindon right outside the door So, put those pre-conceived mens hire, stationary, video hire, jewellers,
Telephone: 695223 aside and make a visit to Wear It gifts, make-up and hair demonstrations,
Unit 7, Bristol Street, Railway Village
We sell garments on a 50/50 basis Swindon (by the water tower) Well and Aznew - and say you read cakes. Engaged couple can win a free
subject to our terms & conditions about them in The Link magazine! weekend away in a top hotel.
Tel: 423808
Open: Mon - Sat 1000am - 400pm
What have birds and bees
Closed Wed & Sun Open: Tues - Sat 1015am - 5pm
got to do with 'it'?
4 so O4 BEAUTY How can parents talk to children about SEX, writes Chris Beer?
Every year girls become pregnant it all to the schools. Do you feel
THERAPY and young people are infected by that you would like to brush up
sexually transmitted infections. your knowledge and talk to other
at your home or in my
Swindon's teenage pregnancy parents and learn a few tips on
DAY NURSERY private Beauty Room rate is currently higher than the how to be prepared for awkward
Under new management national average and stands at 12 questions? If yes, then come along
and staff team *Manicures * Pedicures unwanted pregnancies per 1,000 and learn together. Join the Birds

For children aged 3 - 5 years *Facials * Make-up young women under 16 years of and Bees group at two workshops
NNEB qualified staff
age. The national average is 10 per on 17 and 24 September at the
*Waxing * Massage
Breakfast, Lunch & Tea 1,000. The Health of the Nation Link Centre.
provided *Eyelash/Eyebrov Tints target is to reduce this figure by We shall be looking at how we
Pre-school room 50% by the year 2000. According learned about sex and how we feel
All this for £65 per week Phone MARIA on 873036 to the Health Education Author- about our own sexuality. What
or £7 per session evenings or weekends ity, over half of all 16 to 19 year are the things that have influenced
Tel: (01793) 532059 for an appointment olds in England have had sexual us in our lives and what values
intercourse. and beliefs will we pass on to our
So, where do young children children?
learn about sex? Who tells them Perhaps we need a clearer idea
BUY FACTORY about their bodies and how they of the facts and myths surround-
CHARISMA work? ing sexual health. Do we know
DIRECT SAVE Ws BLINDS What do they see around them? about our body parts and how they
Page three girls, condom machines, work? Do we know about infec-
Large Range • Quality Fabrics sex selling everything from cars to tions, contraception, periods, wet
ice-cream. What do they hear? dreams? How do we help our
People laughing at dirty jokes, peo- children to feel good about them-
ple laughing at anyone with a dif- selves and their bodies?
ferent sexuality from their own. After all, if we teach children to
tTO
What kind of messages do they swim, why should we keep them
pick up? Some bits of their bodies in the dark about sexual matters
FITTING
ADVICE are rude and kept hidden. What until they are teenagers - and then
FREE HOME/SITE VISITS about AIDS? It's on Eastenders push them in at the deep end as
and apparently you can catch it - their sexual life begins?
Factory showroom open at BSS House, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate, Swindon
Open: Monday - Friday 930am - 530pm • Saturday 1000am - 400pm then you die! For information, call Shirley
What do you want your child to Lewis at the Swindon Health Pro-
Tel: 01793 434584 learn about sex. You cannot leave motion Service, tel: 481182 ext 208.