THE MODERN VENUS.
EFFECT OF ATHLETICS. LONDON. May 17. City shopkeepers assert that the heal--1 thier" and more natural life which the modern woman leads has caused such an I increase in her measurements that the big London stores have had to open outj size departments for gloves, shoes, and 1 stockings. It is also claimed that the abandonment of corsets has caused an average increase of three inches in waist measurement | daring the last ten years, and shoes are i three sizes larger than in I=XjO. f Small women are finding it increasingly ' difficult to purchase ready-made gar- ! ments, and are often compelled to so ' tfo maids' departments to obtain their I requirements.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18412, 30 May 1923, Page 9
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