SHOULDER BEAUTY CAN BE CULTIVATED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 172, 17 April 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

SHOULDER BEAUTY CAN BE CULTIVATED

MODERN FASHION DEMANDS GREATER POISE AND GRACE

.One of the comments that a distinguished foreign visitor to London made after attending a State function was that. ‘’English women have tlie most beautiful shoulders and arms in the world—but they do not 1,-now how to make the most of them.”

It is true that, the English woman starts her social .life with tlie heritage of line, flawless skin, height, in most eases, above the average of a Latin woman, and a well-poised head on a slender neck. The dumpy figure is rare among English debutauntes, but round shoulders and a poking carriage go a long way towards making a young girl the possessor of a bad figure. Corsetieres have been working in conjunction with beauty specialists to make it easier for women to hold themselves proudly erect without spoiling the slimming outline of a gown in front. Modern brassieres aud belts offer no excuse to the woman who does not hold herself as she was taught to do in the schoolroom.

In one London salon the most popular slimming treatments at the moment are those concerned with reducing the “hump” at the back of tlie neck that comes to the older woman, ami bulges on the upper arm and below the shoulder. An astringent patter used with a lotion that is just patted on and left

to be absorbed is the least troublesome of all these methods, but whore results are wanted in a short time something more drastic has to be done.

There is a roller with a double spiral twist that masfeages away the extra flesh, especially on the upper arm, and a soap that is used iu the bath on the shoulders.

Now that coatees and basqued coats are so generally worn in the evening with dinner and dance dresses during tlie winter, there are not so many sufferers from upper arms reddened by cold, or from gooseflesh, which affects debutantes and many young people whose skin is elsewhere flawless. Gooseflesh is often caused by nervousness as well as by poor circulation. A specialist who has a treatment for it in a salon makes a point of advising her young clients to develop self-confidence in their own appearance, and this will hasten the good effect of the treatment. A kind of salt is massaged into the skin with an aromatic oil for five minutes daily, and this has a nourishing and. smoothing effect. There is also a hygienic cream that has been made for the purpose of restoring roughened ami reddened skin and this is one of three preparations in a home treatnicut for whitening the shoulders and arms iu ■preparation for winter' gaieties.