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September 1, 2009 8:06 pm at 8:06 pm
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rabbiofberlin
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In answer to the general question of make-up ,to include perfume, the gemoro in Kesubos (daf 70A) and the rambam (Ishus perek 13-8) clearly indicate that “kishut” (make-up and perfume,see rashi) are a major part of a woman’s attribute and a husband cannot forbid it to her for any lenght of time, otherwise he has to divorce her with the kesubboh. and the gemoro continues; (daf 71B); ‘sheken bnos yisroel miskashtos beregel”. daughters of israel “made up’ on yom tov.
Whether this was only for the home, as some suggest, may be true but it strains logic to think that all women remained in the house all the time and never went out ‘made up”.