FIGURES GO SUMMERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 11

FIGURES GO SUMMERY

As summer approaches our figures come more and more out into the open! They are going to need smart flowing curves —for those charming dressed-up cottons can’t be worn with a slipshod casualness. And they are going to have them cooly—with breezy two-way-stretch figure-mould-ers with twin-control. In other words, with knit-in front and back control, which is what we need most isn't it? This makes the stretch foundations possible then for even the quite plump and curvy. Really, the way the manufacturers have excelled themselves this summer, you'd think we'd never had a summer before. Certainly we've never been bewildered and enchanted in turn by so many different kinds of hot-weather foundations. Very tropical are a group of voile and net foundations for lightweights. Doubling and trebling this almost chiffon-like sheerness makes it sufficiently restraining. The boon about these porous cottons is that they are said to absorb perspiration and at the same time let the body breathe freely. As for the two-way-stretch foundations, they’re the most delightful things to look at. Delightful the feel of them too—silky and soft as thistledown. Even those which are unbelievably fine (no thicker than silk lingerie) do definitely control. Popular number, we predict, will be a medium-weight rather open-meshed one. Determined runner-up will possibly be the stepin that has panels of fine rubber actually sprayed on! Sounds ingenious, doesn’t it?—and i‘ is: very attractive, too, and very, ver; final about protruding abdomens. Ar other eye-catcher is a stepin with clever sports motif woven right into the fabric.