DECEPTIVE MIRRORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 18

DECEPTIVE MIRRORS.

An amusing account of deceptive mirrors is given in a London 'uaily paper as follows:—Mirrors are now being made which distort the truth and disprove the old saying ■ that “a mirror cannot tell a lie.” Women' who go to buy new dresses in some up-to-date dress saloons should take care not to be duped by a “lying” mirror- A woman who went to buy a new dress in Mayfail - recently sighed with relief as she looked at herself in the mirror that was placed in the centre of the softly-furnished fashion room. “I really am getting thinner,” she remarked., “and this dress does give me the right slim lines. I think I’ll take it with me. It is so nice to find something that does make one look fashionably slim.” “Quite, ‘modem,’ ” said the mannequin. “You are not at all too plump.” “Modem” returned to her home with the box. She eagerly lifted the dress from its tissue paper wrappings and tired it on. Those slim, easy lines the garment had given her when she looked at herself in the shop mirror! .What had happened to .them? Now, as she stared at her image in her own looking-glass she saw unsightly lines and creases which she had not observed in the fashion saloon. The new dress did not make her look any thinner, but, on the contrary, gave her the plump effect she was trying to avoid. What, had blinded her in the shop? Why had she been so deluded? “Modom” was frankly puzzled, just as scores of women are worried by the same mystery every day. The answer to the riddle was simply this: In the North of England there exists a glass factory which makes special mirrors for fashion saloons. They are slightly convex, and give a delightful illusion of slimness to the woman who is trying on a new frock in the saloon where they are used- " Lying” mirrors have been placed in many dress houses in London recently, following the example of some Paris saloons.