FITTING FOUNDATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1940, Page 8

FITTING FOUNDATIONS

POINTS WORTH NOTING. Half the secret of correct fitting is to have the garment placed correctly on the figure before it is fastened—not tugged down afterwards. Garments which specialise in hip control, for instance, are placed further down over the thighs than a short-below-waist garment. If put on too high up, the best fit will go astray. Your curves and those of the foundation will never coincide. If, therefore, you have taken it upon yourself to fit your figure at home, you may unwittingly reject the very garment in which you could make your biggest bid for beauty, because how can you be expected to know just where the garment should be placed, or in what order suspenders, hooks, laces, talon, should be fastened. The sensible thing to do is to have your new foundation fitted by the corsetiere at your favourite shop. It costs nothing—fitting foundations is taken as much for granted as fitting shoes, and all good stores maintain a corsetiere as part of their service to customers. Don’t expect a corset alone to make your figure perfect, while you do nothing about your posture. Corsets are designed to remold the soft flesh and to hide your defects; but no corset will completely eliminate your sway-back, lift your diaphragm, or straighten your dowager’s hump. It will help them enormously, but if you want to have a perfect figure, you must do two things: (1) be fitted perfectly to the | corset for your own type. (2) Hold yourself correctly—standing, sitting, walking, concentrate until good posture becomes second nature.