FIGURES AND NECK-BANDS

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 11

FIGURES AND NECK-BANDS

A season or two ago (says the Argus) w-3 were comparatively comfortablo creatures, for fashion made no demand on our figures beyond insisting on big hips and wide shoulders, both of which it was perfectly easy to acquire by the aid of art. Waists were a matter of no importance, and a yard of ribbon loosely tied sufficed for a belt. Collarbands, too, could be worn or ignored as preferred, and many girls protected their throats with a string of pearta alone. But all this has changed. The feminine form, as it is pictured by artists and sculptors, is now very different from tho shape which is the result of quite another art, and the eye which admires tho well-dressed girl of the day can see little resemblance to the statue. It is remarkable how easily the majority of women can comply with a change of style of figure. Now it is the mode to be slim' and "elance," so decided hips are out, and corsetieros are again remaking women, sacrificing tho "straight front" to the tapering waist and narrow back. It would seem, judging from the trend of fashion, that tho straight lines of a garfish or n, baracoutta will bo tho ideal figure for next year. Neckbands are certainly not the dreadful affairs they were in distant days, but nevertheless they are still high-boned walls which can be very uncomfortable. Though the hats of the moment are smart and becoming, they are awkward enough to wear, for they aro not made to fit the head, and most of them have only tho merest pretence of a crown, and havo to bo pinned, on tho necessary angle with long hat pins, which, is thero is anything of a breeze, often drag tho hair most painful y. But, though wo grumble occasionally at these drawbacks, wo admiro the results immensely