How Young Is Your Posture?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 4

How Young Is Your Posture?

For Women

FVEN after she has stopped '- 1 counting birthdays, a woman of fine posture can maintain her reputation for youth as well as beauty. Nothing makes her so arresting as knowing how to

stand, sit and walk. Anne Moore, veteran teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Art 4, has had .special opportunity to prove this, for her correction of posture <!"- feets has helped many young actrcs-es to distinguish themselves. According to Miss Moure, posture enables you to add to your height, emphasise tin; good points and obscure defects of figure, subtract years. handle your body \\ it li distinct ion and enhance the smartness of clothe-. To look taller, you must pull the slack out of your posture. Nazimova claim-, with good proof, that she can add four inches to her stature. Stand up a- tall as a haughty duchess, hut without strain. The -traiuhter you keep your spine, the more perfect your figure will be. One end of your -pine should point to the floor, the other to the ceiling. Pull up your chest. Draw in your abdomen. Hold up your head so that the crown follow- the straight line of your spine. And have no worry about your chin. Its line will be at a right angle with vour neck, aiul as cleanly etched as a criiid's. Mark your height on the wall before and after you achieve this perfect alignment, and see the difference. If you are already tall, the improved posture will add to the distinction of your figure. Do you want your chest to look fuller? ou can increase it- depth and breadth by pulling your shoulders wide. Trv it, and check your chest c.\pau-iou on a tapeline. Sloped, rounded -boulder-, a hollow chest, and a hump on the back of the neck will vanish like magic.

By Sylvia Blythe

A Royal Road To Beauty

1"<»r a <.|imiiK»r waistline. ton. you [mil up tlif >litrk. tuck in your abdomen. and dr.iw up tin- bulges at tin.* midriff. At ill.- «iuiii' time, your liips will become -limuier. taking mi a narrow lino he I'iiii-c tln*v ride in. not out. N mi iiuiy have difficulty roniemlx'rniL: tn ki'i'p your rounded shoulders pulled dmvii mid back. So did the grac«*t'iil Kitty Carlisle. But work at it, as t-lio did. until it becomes automatic. Watch Mini po-turo in filiop windows anil ••■inillll yourself over and over auain to >t ra iliten <>iit your rdioulders and pull up your chest, until walking erectly becomes ii habit. How do you sit? This *>tin of t lie x reen tells you to make sure of your chair by feeling for it with the back of your knees. Then, with one foot -lightly forward, ease the body down at'iHffullv. until the full weight reston tiie pehic hones. Keep t lie spine »t rai l! 111. the ahdomen in, and when ynu nunc forward, bend from the hips. If \ou want to itios your lei;*. make the npeinent swiftly, pulling your skirt> 11<■ \\ ii simultaneously. Keep the toe ot the -\\ inyiii' 4 foot yrai-efully pointed iii 11 irk of the theatre which adds beauty.

When you walk, keep your weight e \ i-ii over the arches of your feet, and move in a straight line with your feet pointed straight. One of the most grace fill walks j„ a kind of suction step with the outside* of the feet and toes -ripping tho ground.