PERFECT FIGURES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 7

PERFECT FIGURES

(Own Correspondent

Girls To Parade At Youth Festival VENUS' SPECIFICATIONS

— By Air Mail.)

LONDON, April 22. During the great Festival of Youth to be held at Wembley Stadium on July 3 in aid of the King George Y. Memorial Fund there will be a parade of young people from every sports, recreational, and physical fitness aesoeiation in the country. And in that parade there will be 36 representatives of the Women 's Ama* teur Athletic Association. The 36 girls representing the association will have figures as closely resembling that of the. Yenus de Milo as it is possible to have. The association has circularised 90 affiliatei clubs in the South of England asMng each to submit one member as a candidate for the parade. Each candidate mnst have these measurements:-— Heigh— 5ft. 41n. to 5ft. 6in, Bust — 33in. to 34in. Hips — 36in. to 37in. *And if you don't believe tha't.they will be all like Venus de Milo, consicler the measurements of Yenus de Milo: Height-— 5ft. 4in. Bust — 37in. Hips — 38in. For some years, °I hasten to remind you, Yenus has not been accepted as the perfect figure so far as bust measurements are concerned. And why doea the Women 's A.A.A. injist on these measurements? Xet Mrs J. Cornell, for six years honorary secretary and a vice-presadent of the National Association, explain: — "We want to show that women can be athletic without losing their iigures. People get the idea that, as soon as a girl takes up sports and games and physicStl culture, she must lose her figure and become a huge, masculine hulk.

"Well, it asn't so. Athletics help girls to keep their figures, and this parade will show how well. There are plenty of girls in the association whose figures conform to these Tequirements. And all are trained • athletes, "The modern girl has a better figure than the Venus de MiJo; most people "have acknowledged that for years. Certainly the girls in the various athletic aesociations up and down the country can prove it — and will on July 3." • All the associations taking paTt in the festival. will also be represented" in the parade— -Girl Guides, Boy Seouts," Women 's Leaguo of Health and Beanty, and dpzens of others. The Vend (or Venuses, if you prefer it) from the Women 's Amateur Athletic Association will wear white vests and Hack shorts. That will help you to pick them out.