% w i mm** O' •■■■■a i\ja4V« m Fier 37 .. . Where the Aquitania lies waiting to commence her Atlantic voyage. Sirens screech. Whistles shrill. Red-faced porters trundle luggage on trucks .. . A hurly-burly of transport and commerce. • Against such a background groups of smart travellers stand out in relief. The men’s clothes are a tribute to Bond Street... the women’s gowns a tribute to Paris . . . and their figures a tribute to today’s corsetieres. a They know, these smart voyagers, that, though your figure be perfect, you must wear a corset. Their dressmakers told them so .. . their beauty specialists confirmed it. • Some have their corsets made specially ... Others, more wise, wear the Berleis designed for their own distinct figure types. • Berlei, being built to type, give the elegance of the specially-made, without the bother at a fourth the price, a Though your figure be perfect, you must wear a Berlei to keep it so. a Choose from 240 models, from ten shillings to one hundred and ten shillings, in 16 sizes and 5 figuretypes and their variations, a To give your figure greater beauty ... to preserve the beauty that is . . . have your Berlei expertly fitted by the skilled corsetieres at your service in smart shops today, a Berlei (N.Z.) Ltd. • *There are Five Fundamental Figure Types: Average Proportions, Sway Back, Big Hip, Big Abdomen, Short Below Waist. You belong to one of these types, and only a Berlei can fit you perfectly, for only Berlei makes foundations to these five figure-types. ijeria Priced from to/- to 110/Corsets made for the figuretypes of any one country rarely fit to perfection the figure-types of another. Berleis therefore are manufactured in each country exclusively for that country's figure-types. Berleis for the Five New Zealand FigureTypes are made in New Zealand.
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FOR ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN. Hastie, Bull and Pickering are showing a very fine selection of Engineers' Fine Tools, Mathematical Instrument Sets, Scales. Protractors, Tee Squares. Set Squares, Compasses, Rotating Compasses, Drawing Pens, Stainless Pens. Spring Bow Dividers, Spring Bow Pencils, Slide Rules and every modern appliance for the Engineer and Student Inspection invited. HASTIE, BULL AND PICKERING. LTD., Cashel Street. 7141
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 11
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