She attended secretarial college there, and was invited to join a modelling agency by two women she met a party, Winsome Goudie and Mary Bourne.
She also worked part time in reception and typing positions, such as for photographer Clifton Firth, fashion company Voyageur International and the ANZ Bank.
[1] In 1968 Bestall-Cohen and her husband purchased the June Dally Watkins Deportment School and Model Agency and developed a promotions company to work together with it.
[2] The following year Bestall-Cohen began organising and presenting fashion shows—the first one she managed was for department store Milne & Choyce—which she continued to do up until the late 1980s.
[1] In 1999 Bestall-Cohen moved to Queensland and in 2005 set up a womenswear company, Ananda, and opened a boutique in Noosa.