This New Luxurious Freedom

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 15

This New Luxurious Freedom

The complcto switchover; from the straight silhouette to tho; shapely womanly liguro within the last few years has left us gasping a little. Tor to-days’ clinging clothes havo an unhappy knack of exhibiting' all our minor—to say nothing of our majordeficiencies of figure. We're feeling dosporatcly in need of corsets,; biit hato the thought of them—especially tboso of us who conjure up at the word ■ “corsets" those old-time hideous and ! barbaric garments that pushed us into shape. I Fortunately for us, science and inI vention has come to our aid with something as far removed from the corset ns wo know it as whalebone is from stretchable satin. | The new silken sheaths are as lovely to look at as exquisite lingerie. And as thrilling to wear, not only because one feels glamorous in them, but be- , causo the now plastic fabrics have a carossing feel against the skin which is an entirely new sonsation in a corset (a slenderising one too, by the way, for tho continual expanding and contracting massages away unwanted flesh). All the illustrations on this page aro of the very latest typo of corsets which aro being worn in Paris, London and New York. They are abnost ontirely boneloss, and aro made of satin, net, faillo with invisible stretch woven in ’ with Lastcx throad. Their aim is to

support the figure and mould it without undue restraint. Such corsets aro the only possiblo foundations for the rich, luxurious new evening fabrics which drape so snugly to tho figure that they reveal overy outline.