PATTIE BOYD'S "LETTER FROM LONDON"

In 1965, Pattie Boyd began writing a column for "16 magazine" called Pattie Boyd's "Letter from London", where she would answer questions from teenage girls. Here are two of her articles.

HI DOLLIES!

Do you daydream of becoming a famous model overnight? Do you wish a photographer would come up to you as you walk down the street and ask you to pose for "Vogue"? Oh, dear, I was the same as you once. But it just didn't happen that way. This is the true story of how I started, told for Teri Lowney of San Francisco, Califronia, and all the others who have written asking the same questions:

I wanted to be a model but I just didn't know how, so I called up a friend at a big magazine. He said to come over to the office. The office was a great building in London full of long corridors and it didn't take little pattie long to get lost. There I was, looking at numbers on doors, when a stranger bumped into me.

"You a model?", he asked briefly. "Come in here. I can probably use you". Not the romantic approach I'd hoped for! Still, I earned my first fee that way and he ended by giving me some good advice. "Get a good agent and go to one of the top modelling schools".

So that's the advice I'd pass on to all of you who dream of becoming models. Train at a school thathas proved itself -not just one of these places that give you a paper diploma and nothing else -and don't try to sell yourself when you have qualified. Let your agent do that.

Audrey Lubert of Chicago Ill., wants to know my height, weight and colouring. Well, I'm five feet seven inches tall, I weigh 105 pounds, have blue eyes and am what they call a pink and white blonde!

Debbie Wadleigh of Indianapolis, Ind., asks how tall you have to be to become a model. that's a diificult question, Debbie. You could model small teenage fashions and be no more than five feet tall, but for sophisticated clothes, a girl has to be five feet six inches at least.