FIGURES & FASHIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 8

FIGURES & FASHIONS

IMPORTANCE OF FOUNDATION. Figures and houses stand or fall by their foundations. Build a good foundation for your house, and you can have a cottage or mansion of real and lasting beauty; build your wardrobe over a good foundation and you will not only feel your best but look your best —always. Figure beauty is not a matter of age, or height, or size. Stranger still, it is not even a matter of shape, for you can be short-waisted. long-waisted. full-bosomed, or’ wide-hipped, and still have a beautiful figure. It is a matter of proportion. firmness and control. And those three things are within the grasp of every woman. The beautiful silken sheath that is the modern corset, has so many clever ways of performing sleight of hand feats upon your curves! They whittle you down here, build you out there. They smooth away bulges, so that your line is no longer a succession of bumps and hollows but one breathless liquid curve! They neaten bulk and redistribute flesh to give you better proportions. They have entirely new ways of lifting up the jaded bosom, and keeping it up. But so ingenious have the corset designers become that it is now almost impossible for any of the controlling devices to show under even sheer dresses. Not even if it is one of the really stern types of corsets have a big job of control to do. Suspenders have become completely selfeffacing—and they attach themselves to you stockings in an amazing new way. flat as a pancake. They've done new things to bones so that they no longer poke, prod, bulge in the middle or stick out at angles. They're supple and they stay closely to the lines of the figure under the greatest provocation; and they’re incredibly light and fine. And the glamorous new fabrics have to be seen to believe they're corset fabrics at all!