Exercise and Breathing

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 9 March 1935, Page 12

Exercise and Breathing

Build Up Your Figure

Busts are being Avorn this year, and it’s a fact that the new frocks look their best over a certain amount of bosom. ' Here are a few tips for making the most of tho curves you already have: Try standing up straight, for a change; it’s astonishing the difference it makes. In spite of all the gymthey do at school, most girls nowadays are deplorably round-shouldered by* the time they are tiventy. Puli your shoulders ba/?k and put your diaphragm and “tammy” in. Practice this attitude when you remember it, and gradually you’ll train yourself to it permanently. , . Breathing properly Avill also help towards a pretty, rounded figure. Most of us, Avhen Ave breathe, expand slightly just above the waist only. This is wrong. Practice breathing with the top of the lungs, so that when you breathe in you contract lift, the waist and the expansion comes across the upper part of the chest. That’s hoAA 7 singers breathe, and it certainly helps to round out the bust. \

you like, very much, but to your disappointment. discover that the instruc-

tions are given for a size larger or smaller than required, it is a comparatively simple .matter to make it the size wanted by altering the tension. This can be done by using larger or smaller needles, as required, choosing those which will alter the tension say, from seven stitches to the inch to six stitches to the inch (for a larger size) or eight stitches to the inch (for smaller size). This method will give you the required alteration- in width, but if the instructions are given in rows instead of inches, perhaps the pattern will read “work 106 rows from top of ribbing to armhole,” etc., instead of “work 8, 9 or 10 inches” (as the case may be)—then keep a sharp look-out on the length of your work and do extra or less rows, as required, to make it the ; correct depth. The same must be remembered when working the armhole, working extra rows if need be (or fewer rows, if larger needles have been used) than in the instructions, so that the jumper will work out to fit exactly.