Sunshine To The Dominion Summer Girl Means Sunshades

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 17

Sunshine To The Domin ion Summer Girl Means Sunshades

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Old Idea with New Outlook

One of the many things that women 'did during, the fever of reaction after' the war years was to discard their corsets m a sort of universal chorus. . '

IT was symbolic .of their determination But they, did not return to the old to set up new standards and tear stays, those formidable garments, down old ones, and be as free as the whale-boned and laced, and generally gloriously free male .being. .. . presenting an appearance closely reHowever, time has shown that this sembling that of light battle armor, step had its disadvantages. After In the interim the corsetieres had some time they returned: to the corset, -. learnt their i esson) and they have sadder and wiser, and be it remarked now deaigned mo dels more m keepvery often broader, women. They, had d Wlih - the gpirit and fee ii n g of seen the evil of their ways. . . the modern woman .

The tightly-swathed hip-line is the true foundation of smartness m the modern female form divine. The loveliest figure m the world needs a support of some kind, even of the slightest.. •- .

Also, doctors give their opinion that all women should wear a support of some kind, even young girls.

. . Many .corsetieres only make to order, as they hold the theory that as every figure is a, little different no stock cor- v set can fit it perfectly. Many of these new corselets, girdles :and brassieres are designed to be worn next to the skin, and are, consequently, made of good washing materials, fine and strong.