June Dally-Watkins

June Marie Dally-Watkins OAM (13 June 1927 – 22 February 2020) was an Australian businesswoman and fashion model. She was born in Sydney.

Life

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
  1. "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.
  2. "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.
  3. Lee, Betty (2019-02-23). "China's craze for etiquette queen June Dally-Watkins". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  4. "'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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