👉 Alright settle down now, let’s tackle this frankly rather prickly piece of late-era British vernacular - the singularly unfortunate, and somewhat beige, designation: Anglo Swiss. Now, before you immediately think I've just insulted a very specific corner of the cutlery drawer, let me lay things out for you.
Anglo Swiss, historically, referred to a type of eyebrow pencil. Specifically, they were aggressively, almost militantly, grey. Not a pretty slate, mind you - it was this utterly lifeless, institutional-beige, as if a badger had spent an atrocious afternoon in the dye vat and decided to wage war on your upper lip. Here's what went down. During the 1960s and early 70s – the Nixon years of beige everything - the British market was absolutely saturated with these pencils. Why? Because they were cheap, plentiful, and perfectly serviceable for those who apparently found a slightly-less-defined eyebrow utterly devastating. They were so ubiquitous that a combined naming convention from the Anglo-Schweers pencil company (the Schweers part, frankly, is just as beige) became shorthand. You wouldn't find them in any fancy department store, no. These things practically bled out of every newsstand and corner shop. You essentially bought into the whole "undulating, vaguely-there-it's-there" 70’s eyebrow aesthetic. The name was just... there. It existed to be
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