HEALTH IN CLOTHES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 14

HEALTH IN CLOTHES

“ The late Canon Dick Sheppard once said that women would avoid -growing old if they would lift up their hearts instead of having their faces lifted. He wanted women to look, as he said, victorious about life,” recalled Mrs Alison Settle in a recent broadcast talk to women. “ Well, do you lobk like that? Maybe you have so many things to worry about that it is difficult to look that way. Then let your clothes help you. If you have a burst of colour and gaiety in your dressing, your spirits go that way. There is health in clothes, too. There is a tonic fillip in the new hat. Doctors will tell you that how the woman dresses is the first thing they look at to get at the state of the- woman's mind—how she came, from heaven-given health, to fall into ill-health. And when a woman gets back vanity she gets back health. Look at this year’s new fashions, the number of quite small things you can take from the news about fashion, and, using God’s gift of vanity, them to yourself; It isn’t a case of taking the household money and going out on the loose, on a shopping bout. You can go on with the suit or the coat or what you’ve got but see that you hat has a gay little feather on it, a becoming veil on it, things that fashion recommends to you this year.”