SUMMER CUTS A NEW FIGURE

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 316, 27 September 1940, Page 1

SUMMER CUTS A NEW FIGURE

Summer is the time to give yourself a sartorial lift. And it doesn’t take a' great deal of doing either. Just acquire a few dramatic things —a hatfwith teal spirit, a dress with a new silhouette, shoes that are different from the kind you usually wear. Try a new colour scheme or new make-up or a new hair-do. Leave your winter self behind —and step out. a But before you get too imaginative, have a'fairly complete view of the summer view and decide just where you fit into the picture. If the silhouette of the moment doesn’t suit your figure, don’t wear it. An adaptation of that same silhouette will look just as smart—and do more for you. Well, what i s the silhouette for day-time? Slim-waisted —that is the key to the whole story. The slimmer the better. But are you murmuring, “Poor me, my waistline Isn’t what it might be?” Like all other fashions, this one ha s its camouflages. Widening your shoulders and wearing a fullish skirt will make your waistline seem much smaller than its actual measurement. Lesson one in the fashion story is a lesson in foundations. Midrib control is simply perfect. Moderate and rounded curves are the thing below the waist, and high, wide and handsome ones above. All this is achieved—comfortably, and quite without any strain whatever —by clever cutting and the use of more and even better stretching fabrics. Marvellous “fabric-boning” takes-the place of metal bones in many models.. But metal bones, when they are used, arc so light and flexible you almost need a microscope to find them. Controlettes are the favourites of the season, although many of our smartest women have swung back to two-piece control because they simply couldn’t resist the new screenstar brassieres. Such glamorous curves, such slick, lovely lines, you never did see, and under the new clothes—which require all the bosom they can get—these ultra-uplift trifles are incredibly chic.