KEEP IT TRIM!

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

KEEP IT TRIM!

lI7AISTLINES are as important " as a crown of curls this fall. But not even the very young can all boast of a jitterbug's wasplike mid-section. And from 30 on most of us struggle against a disposition of the flesh to expand around the middle. Yet a trim waist can be ours.

By Sylvia Blythe

Margaretta Byers, author of "Designing "IVomen," which admits you into a well-laid plot to deceive with dress and make-up, has made a study of both honest and deceptive waistlines. She is convinced, from experience in fashion and beauty salons, that one can look as

slender as the other. The trick depends upon good posture, exercise, and rules of optical illusion, applied to diess. More slack space settles around your waist than any other part of vour body \ou can reduce two inches bv pulW that slack up to your shoulders and che„t. I rankly admit that you have a < nest, tuck in the abdomen, 'swing your J s in, and watch the line smooth out through the entire midriff. No exercise is better for • wa i st . "'"Seles than squeezing them "In and holdinsr them ti,s. i. u,em contractile fibres" 3 Pull t h"h mneCleß iu ' ev «> as vou sit. Hold your epi ne straight with your shoulder blades touching the back of your chair. Here are two exercises to rout bulges u ith gl fV° U a B,immer waist. Stand j i J apart ' knee s stiff, haids clasped, head up. Raise vour arms hiX over your head. Then 1 the floor bending the trunk at the Tame inie, and chop, at an imaginary block ...i.""2 vr y / e s ei . p '*£ up a f?om Trz ,eft arm 6 ' tretch « l up irom the shoulder, vour riorht arm dropped to your side. Twist the tor™ to the right, and bend down as far as 3ou can from the waist. Reverse the movement to the left, this time lfftS 01, ; , « *r m and lowering the left Do this 50 times. 0 "l y , a . g ,°° d wa 'stline should be accented with trick belts, wide -irdles and contrasting sashes. If y our waist is arge, princess lines are your best choice It you wear belts, choose partial ones or those which match your gown A narrow string belt will make your waiat 00k larger; a wide belt increases the horizontal line; and a tight belt will ?«v. a nailed-in effect. A dark belt on r ,A g <* le f ß m . ore slendering than <= t on dark. Flaring skirts and tucks seams and slanting popkets on diagonal' lines focus attention away from the ?t a th; c .ff S " Wit u h fullness Pleased ilho "™ °» °' ick »«* <" tb« If your waist is small and your bins arge oy contrast, dress your waist to look wider. Lift your belt a trifle above your normal waistline, release blouse nillness above it, and reject peplums he w "*'" the Remember that & good waistline is a matter of proportion. Lift it; lower -> mask it in it« relation to the entire I silhouette.