PUTTING ON WEIGHT?

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 2

PUTTING ON WEIGHT?

CONTROL THOSE CURVES. If you’ve been putting on a little flesh lately and you’ve been thinking of going on a diet — just for a week or so — then stop thinking now, -and listen to good common sense. Throw over all this about diet in winter... you need every particle of food that enters your body to build up reserve strength and energy. Nearly everyone during the course of the winter has to face a crisis of some description, whether it’s ’flu or just a common cold. So be sensible and let your corsetiere look after your figure problem. Correct corsetry just laughs at those extra ounces. You remember that old saying: “What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve”; well, that applies to unwanted flesh. And now a few words about the right sort or corset to choose, because each occasion demands a different type. Of course, a free and easy summer girdle designed essentially for freedom and coolness simply won’t do. Choose one of the many warm winter ones. There you’ll find added strength to hold you firmly, and to mould away the flesh. For the fuller figure, you’ll find a couple of bones running all the way