SPLENDID WOMEN.
The woman of to-day is a veritable Amazon compared with her grandmother. Experts attribute this to her indulgence in athletics. "More sensible clothing from childhood'and such sports as net ball and hockey at school have made the modern woman a fine specimen of physical development?" a doctor said to a "Daily Mail" reporter. "She has broader shoulders, a bigger waist, more muscular arms and legs, and more inches than the women of 50 years ago. Her growth liae been greatly helped by her refusal to wear tight clothes and corsets." The manager of the women's costumes departments at a great London store said:' "In nine cases out of ten, the growing schoolgirl has to be fitted in the women's department. Tall and welldeveloped girls are no longer a curiosity. A few years at school, with sports and athletics, produce remarkable changes." The secretary of the. Women's League of Health and Beauty, which teaches the value of physical fitness, said: "No other generation has produced such fine specimens of healthy womanhood as are to be seen everywhere to-day. 5 ?
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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180SPLENDID WOMEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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