WAISTS FOR WOMEN
LATEST PARIS EDICT. FASHIONABLE SILHOUETTE. London, Jan. 3. , Predicting that there will be real waists for women in the spring fashions of 1934, the fashion editress of the Daily Mail says Parisian dress designers have decided that it is time for a radical change. • The long-lived semi-masculine, squareshouldered silhouette will disappear, and will be replaced by clothes on Victorian and Edwardian lines. Although a leading dressmaker em- » phasised that women' will not again be ffc* forced into impracticable clothes, never- ' theless women in 1934 will definitely possess waists measurable in inches. The waists will not necessitate tight lacing, but will be produced by beauti-fully-fitting non-restricting corsets, which will accentuate the natural lines due to years of scientific exercising. There is a tendency to place the waistline shortly above the normal, while the looseness of the bodice and a snugly-fit-ting skirt will accentuate the effect. Accordingly women will be unable to discard diet charts or exercises to achieve a fashionable silhouette. Evening blouses with jabots and cravats of tulle, organdie, pique and other materials, to suggest a fullness . above the waist, will be essential. X
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1934, Page 10
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