SLIM FIGURES TO GIVE WAY TO PLUMPNESS, FASHION SAYS
[ Australian Press Assn.—United Service. ] LONDON, Sept. 13. Fattening exercises are becoming the rage, according to the fashion dictators and restaurant proprietors, who deny the insinuation that it is a case merely of the wish being father to the thought. Rcstaurantcurs assort that they already notice that girls no longer ask for black coffee and lemon squashes in the forenoon, but demand sundaes, cream, chocolate and pastries. Everybody knows that the fashion experts started the ball rolling when they decreed ampler curves, but the food experts point out that hipless and chestless figures inside the new fashions can only produce frights. Without plumpness the new frocks resemble washing hung out. on a clothes lino. It is stated that the doctors altruistically support the new fashions on the ground that self-starvation in tho interests of boyish figures has been undermining the health of the rising generation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 11
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