FANCY AND FACT
HESE models show the U.S. female figure as picture editors fancy it (left) and as it mostly is (right). Confitming a long-stand-ing male suspicion that the fall, lean-shanked, flat-hipped bathing girl is a peculiar figment thrown up on Hollywood beaches, the U.S. Agriculture Department got busy with a tape measure, found that the average American woman is 5tt. 3in., weighs 13314 pounds, has a 351 bust, 29 waist and 39 hips. The average woman, dumpy by the movies’ standards, might well reply that movie stars, by hers, are anaemic. -"Time"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 17
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93FANCY AND FACT New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 17
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