MASCULINE WAISTS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 16

MASCULINE WAISTS

“Banting,” or dieting to remove fai, for which women have been so ridi» culed, has now become popular among men at Home. There has always been the elderly colonel or stockbroker, who devoted hours to the 1 urkisli bath to check unwanted increase of weight, but it is not among these that the new craze has caught on. It is among men of

fashion. The cause is the double-breasted jacket, which has become so popular that the ultra-smart have their dinner jackets cut on the same lines. The double-breasted coat shows best when cut to a figure which tapers from shoulder to toe like a peg-top. Hence the “banting,” the denial of favourite dishes, and the painful hours of massage at the baths. The stavs of the Guardsman are no longer a myth. They are now known! as “gents? obesity girdles.” Those who are undergoing the martyrdom find consolation, however. “The fatter one is,” said a prominent Alayfair surgeon “the more liable one is to suffer from high blood pressure. It is usually the thin, wiry type that lives the longest.