Lop-Sided Women Measure For Bad Fitting Clothes
Some dress experts startled their clients recently by announcing that most women were lop-sided. They said the lopsideness, not bad dressmaking, was usually the reason for dresses hanging crookedly. Women, eager to have everything straight, stood unnaturally erect during dress fittings, and created a different figure shape from their normal posture. The result was false measurements, which made the new dress a bad fit when the wearer relapsed to normal. The most lop-sided women, said the experts were:— Typistes, who sat one-sidedly. Teachers, whose dresses needed shortening on the left, because they were constantly stretching up on the right to a blackboard. Machinists and similar workers, who developed the habit of pulling up the left shoulder and dropping the right.
Shop assistants and others with jobs necessitating much standing, as they threw their weight on their right side, ultimately lengthening the left.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 3
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149Lop-Sided Women Measure For Bad Fitting Clothes Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 3
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