Analyse Your Figure Faults

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 5

Analyse Your Figure Faults

THE clothes problem should not be a very difficult matter if you make your own frocks. A simple pattern is always at your disposal for a few pence. So select the design that suits you best, and from one Pattern you will be able to make a number of frocks, each of which can be different from the other, for unlimited variations are possible en these days of two-tone effects and color combination. Because a frock that features a tight bodice and billowy skirt suits so well your slimmer friend, don't take liberties with your own avoirdupois and clothe it on similar lines. Look around and see how many of our fair, frail — and not-so-trail— sex make serious errors of "line" m dress, and you will -appreciate the fact that the advice is m season. If you are built on the plump side, and are short with it, confine your selection to straight lines, avoid large patterns, broad stripes, apron fronted skirts, box pleats round necks, very full sleeves, and the higher waist line that appears to be creeping back slowly but surely. If you are thin to scragginess, then the above anathemas to plump women will be friends to you. In any oase, if you are one or the other, or so fortunate as to belong to the happy medium, choose your patterns carefully, and don't gloss over your figure defects, but analyse them with a coldly critical eye, and select the design that will help to make the best of those defects.