YOU AND BEAUTY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 44

YOU AND BEAUTY

WATCH YOUR STEP C) ‘seers fashion experts are coloured stockings, green and lilac and lemon, ¢0 match your topknot. They are especially intriguing with white or cream spectator sports frocks. But they are only for those with shapely legs. Dresses will remain short, at least till the end of the war. Stockings, even coloured cottons, Will remain short, at least till the end of the war. So let us start immediately to do something about our legs and feet before the last conventionally-hued stocking dissolves in shreds and leaves our legs undefended from the public gaze. Hair on the legs can be removed in the same way as hair on the arms, by dusting with talc and then rubbing very gently with pumice or an emery pad. Or if the growth is slight it can again be bleached. Permanent goose‘flesh on the legs can be dealt with in the same way as that on the arms-by brisk rubbing with a loofah, But what about the shape of our legs? Here again something can be done by consistent and patient exercising and treatment, Walking is still the best exercise for improving the shape of the legs and it has the apparently contradictory effect of developing thin legs and firming up flabby ones. Of course it also has the effect of wearing out one’s few remaining stockings, but now that the first day of spring has been and gone it will soon, we hope, be possible to do one’s walking in bare legs and sports socks, Military drill. and marching as _ performed by the W.W.S.A. and W.A.A.F. have, I am told, had a reassuring effect upon the legs of my friends, " If your calves have become overdeveloped, much can be done by a regular course of massage. And the following is an excellent exercise for lower leg bulges. Stand with arms up, hands to wall, Lean forward. Rise on tiptoe. Turn sideways from the hips, bend the knees. Straighten knees, turn in the opposite direction, and repeat. The old-time ‘heels raise, knees full bend, knees stretch, heels lower, is also an excellent exercise for shapely legs. An excellent exercise for speeding up the slenderising process with ankles is as follows: Cross the legs, take the top ankle between the two hands and proceed to wring, twisting the right hand over to the left and the left to the right. Do this first one way and then the next, and continue alternately until you feel that you would rather your ankles remained thick.. Then stop and try again to-morrow.