THE MODERN CRAZE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 9

THE MODERN CRAZE

HABIT OF SLIMMING

DISAPPROVAL OF ARTISTS

LONDON, Bth November.

"What good to me are the flat* chested, narrow-hipped products off modernity?" asked Mr. Frank Brangwyn, 8.A., 8.8.A., the foremost British,' artist, who is searching for models for murals on the Badio City Building-in New York City. His voice is one in a chorus of disapproval by artists of modern female development. ■ --. . Mr. Alfred Praga, R.8.A., contended '~ that dress designers are responsible fof forcing women'to fit their bodies into the long,'snaky lines of modern fashion, instead of allowing them .to develop naturally. "This deplorable mania for slimming-is producing miserable speei« ment.°'of womenhood," he declares.1 _ Mr. Henry W. Nevinson blamed the. • cinema for the dearth of models such as are sought by' Mr. Brangvryn. "The women from Hollywood arc nothing but shrimps,and freaks," he said. "Only; ill-formed dwarfs can stand the- disfiguratjqn and enlargement of the screen: Ordinary women try to ape their Holly-? wood idols, making the craze for de« formation to-day worse than- degrading." ' ■ -'-■:■.

On the other hand, Mr. Bertram Park, an artist-photographer, declares that the average woman to-day is of far finer physique and superior in every way t» the women of all other ages. N