The Ideal Waist

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 5, 12 January 1884, Page 3

The Ideal Waist

The Greeks — who certainly knew something* about the human form — assigned to their ideal waist dimensions quite intolerable to an English woman of to-day. Moreover, they mart* it oval, whereof the m<> ere waist is round. It is a physiological fact, that there is about an oval waist a delightful suppleness and elasticity, while the round waist, .-o cumuvm at the present day, is hari, rigid, and unsympathetic. The tact, is that book women are blessed with waists smali and oval, as every waist naturally is. while other women, less favoured by nature, are determined to ourdo th< j >m all ness, no matter at what cost. But no discriminating critic can even fail to perceive the difference between natural and artificial smallnfiss Perhaps if this were better understood women would cease to ruin their health and weaken the muscles of their backs by going out in a tight fitting cuirass, even at the risk of appearing to depart conspicuously from women's dress. They would then find that some other problems, such as dintribution of weight, would settle themselves without mucU difficulty. — London limes.