THE HOMELY WOMAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 8

THE HOMELY WOMAN

CAN BE MADE ATTRACTIVE.

CULTIVATE A GOOD FIGURE

Haven’t you dreamed of “making an entrance’’ of walking into a

concert, a restaurant or a party, and hearing the murmur, “Who is that lovely woman?” and “Isn’t she smart-” Admit it ... .

But perhaps you feel that you are so “homely” in looks that it could pever happen to you. Take heart. It is a wager there’s not a homely woman in the world today who can’t be made attractive with just a little effort.

But beauty demands upkeep. The world's beauties —the film stars —don't stay beautiful without replenishing their looks. No figure stays shapely and curved to perfection without supervision. No charmingly groomed appearance comes by chance. No distinction of face, figure, dress or carriage is attained in a haphazard way. All are cultivated.

Any woman can cultivate a good figure, for instance, by learning to control her appetite just a little, and if she will learn how to stand and walk correctly. Good foundations, well fitted do the rest, and they are in the reach of all women these days. She can eventually acquire a healthy-looking skin and shining hair. Those things arc based on health. By studying famous women—in the mov ies, in magazines, in advertisements — she can learn one of the most beauti ■ lying arts in the world, namely, daintiness in grooming. There again, the foundation garment comes to the fore. There is no greater aid to chic. In fact, no woman can get the best out of her clothes, or from her own attractions, unless she wears every different type of dress over its correct foundation. The art of dress means more than choosing the right, lines and colours, with an eye to their suitability to your age—having the right things for the right occasion (from the skin out) and having them right for your particular type of figure, are still more impor taut. And they are things any woman can learn from observation and from asking advice from the women who fit her when she buys her dresses, foundations and hats. It costs no more to be dressed harmoniously and to think of your wardrobe as a gradually and carefully assembled unit (every outfit carefully planned from foundation to frock) rather than as a collection of hats, coats and corsets that bear no relation to each other — or to you!

Perfect planning of these details will help to beautify your carriage and deportment. If your corsets are fitted on your figure by an expert corsetiere they will do marvels for your posture. A good corset makes it difficult for you to stand badly. Its gentle clasp of your figure somehow makes you feel more slender, more beautiful to begin with: and that in turn bolsters up one's morale, and goes a long way towards the poise you want. You find yoursell moving with butler rhythm doing thing in a clean-cut confident way. And nothing gives such an effect of beauty as an exquisitely groomed woman, who stands and moves with grace and distinction-.