Paul’s Beauty Parlours of Old Shanghai

What can I tell you about Paul’s Beauty Parlours? Not much I’m afraid apart from what’s in the advert. Prestige addresses on Nanking and Bubbling Well Road (Nanjing and Nanjing West Roads). The claim to be oldest might be disputed (this advert from the early 1930s). I think (and if anyone knows different do let me know) the chain was owned by a White Russian in Shanghai (Paul was, I think, the surname and not the forename). There was competition – that stretch of Nanking Road was home to a host of beauticians from the mid-1920s. The Nanking Road branch was a shared premises with other businesses including the Josefo Photo Studios (who I must get round to posting about one day).