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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FANCY PANTS ★
Hécelas,
FANCY
PANTN are becoming party wear for the Yeung, especially for informal home Recently I saw them in matin, with Otted. partir
and drain-pipe legs
trimmings of sequin beads. Nicolas sketches them here with a sleeveless, match- Ing blouse
The second pale is to bright stripped corduroy velvet, worn with a low-cut black organza blouse.
-London Express Service,
Words of the Wise
RESTORING TONE TO PECTORAL MUSCLES
By Ida Jean Kain
storo lone.
X7ITI! fashion emphasis mursing, Or equal importance mothera is to push their child W
on the bosom, a com- are follow-up exercises to re- in a swing. One young mother who did, 50 times a day all year mon query is:
"Can ong- If the ageing has been allowed round, found it to be the per ging of the bust be cor- to continue for years, no one fect exercise. reeted when the cause ia con promise that the ligaments
No mechanical gadgets should not faulty posture or excess and muscles can be restored to normal tone. But exercise is a
ever be used directly, on the weight?"
real help, for it increases the bust, With a heavy bust, it is In many instances, the answer tone in the particular ligaments well to wear a bra while exercis-
with King, is yes, But first, it is important and muscles and also improves
the support from to understand about the glands, general body tone, which is all beneath and arm straps free. laments and muscles. While important. The pectoral muscles the breasts are not composed of ineert in the upper arms, and muscle, they are held in place that is the by muscles and ligaments. So exercise. It follows that proper wie in the supporting tissues is essential to a normal high position of the
bust.
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key
to effective
A good exercise is to pull to tip-toes on a stretching bur.
Or
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The importaner of posture to The appearance of this measure- ment should never be over- looked. Shoulders should be straight and at case, not raised, in the other palm rounded forward or thrown
Square The shoulders. back. and pushing with the With reasonably normal weight,
the familier resistance exercise-
A natural
for
Proper position depends on cup one ASL the tone of the ligaments reach in front of chest, resisting with ing up to the collarbones and one arm
the tone of the Pectoral other The back stroke as paf- proud posture and a well-fitted Muries which Just under terned after swimming is excel- bm, the bosom need not be a
skin and cover the
the chest. lent.
young problem measurement. These muscles are attached to the inner part of the collarbone, follow down the whole length of the
sternum, and fan out across each side of the chest. The handles of the fans insert into groove in upper arms.
The sagging breast is almost always due to decrease in tone The sum which two married
the supporting tone people owe to one another def the ligaments and to a lack
alte debt, which enn only
through ali discharged mity.--(Goethe)
of
be
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body
Des calculation. it is an ind- pectoral muscles, resulting from
100g
Lote. general Fier-Excessive
cannot weight
be overlooked since it adds to the 638. This not only points up "Angel" is the only word in the importance of normal weight,
but also the ncer to the language which cannot be always,
well Atted
uplift worn out. No other word would wear
Particularly is this which brassiere, 30 resist the pitiless lovers make of It. (Victor need urgent during special Hugo)
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periods such as pregnancy and
Are You Proud of Your Waistline?
If Not, Do Something About It
[ORGET about your face
F
[E'S
for a bit. The face is
the whole of beauty.
how Przy
wornen and
time, money, spend good, hard worry on their faces
and totally for- get that if you want to be easy on the eye, other bits of you matter as much
more.
(F
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
Therefore,
beutifully dressed,
ull have beauty.
wausts away with it through sheer dazzling beauty of face, but there are not many faces like hers.)
Pleate and princess lines, bril skirts and tapered pants all loso their point on you. Fitted conts and skirts have no fluid curves on you. Even the loose coat and
TOP OF THE LIST, I'D the middy suit are not at their PUT THE WAIST.
best on you, for with unfitted cinthes there shimld be space between the fabric and the body beneath. If loose clothes are too well Alled nut they look monumental!
With small waist you can wear anything. any thing, anything.
The New Look was divine on you. Today's Casual Look hungs well on you. Trousers and a shirt look boyish on A fitted suit curves you. sweetly on you. A belt becomes something quite beautiful on you-and a sash unbelievably romantic.
Do you know that many of the big couturiers choose their models for their waistlines, even if their faces are from plain to ugly?
The Ideal Waist
at
Some of Dior's mannequins With a thick waist the are not pretty-in-the-face
ull, Some of Balenciaga's arc battle of good dressing is ugly-featured And not at all fough to win. (Garba gol young. Bul all have minute
all look Therefore,
What do I mean by a small waist! I would say that every inch over 25 Inches In an inch too much.
The ideal model girl's waist is 23 inches. Noth Rose's waist
the
Arst
through diet, the roll round the waistline is usually hing to Bડ.
I don't propose to thrash out the whole diet question today, because I've done it before and you ought to know it by now,
But if you→
Cut out bread. potatoes, and sugar for four weeks,
Reduce fats for the same
Lay off cocktails,
is 23, Pat O'Reilly's is 21, Susan period, Abraham's is 23, so is Barbara Cinler's. (Note to you mothers who moan that having a family finished your figures: Barbara Goalen has two children.)
Stick to one fair-sized and two very light meals a day (no tea, no snacks),
But these girls are profession--then you'll have the pleasure al clothes-pegs. For real fe, I'd y 24 to 25 inches, not a hair's breath more, if you want to have and give the pleasure of wearing clothes well,
So out with your tape men- sura, now. Take a breath if you like, but don't cheat, and face up to what the tape shows.
of pulling the tapo in tighter each time you measure. As it's summer and the salad season, it will be easier to diet this month than at any other time of year. Correct Exercises
GET YOUR WAIST DOWN
exercises con tone the muscles
Every inch over 25 can be got through exercise. Corrost off with a bit of effort.
GET YOUR WAIST DOWN if they are flabby, and are well
worth doing. But personally (and this is asking to be shot at)
by eating less. Diet is by far the quickest, surest way. What's more, when you lose weight I think you'll lose more with a
If women want real equality with man
Stop Undermining Each Other... And
W
Accept Professional Responsibilities
month's dlot than Đ Your's exerciting
If your muscles are weak. here nto my two picked
exereldes
ONE: Stand with feet apart, arms stretched sideways, and awing the body from the walst then to
Q up first to the right,
New York. already is changing. Not that cake and eat it, too. They do-
men already consider
equal rights and equal
7OMEN will have equal- ity with men only when they quit undermining each other, says á lending woman educator.
women mand
their equals. But the spreads of pay with men, but don't take
the left, turning each time as for as you can, so you feel the pull on the waist muscles.
TWO: Stand with feet. £o- gether, arms above your head, and stretch and stretch and stretch, then completely relax.
Repost five times the first day,
Optical Illusions
in colleges and the job seriously. And, often more afterwards. World War II both have taught when they marry and have a men new respect for women, family, they demand special Ahe sold.
breaks... no wonder BOTTO employers are reluctant to hire ships based on intellectual con-
"Co-education builds friend- women or promote them.
TOUGH FOR OTHERS all genitality
on congenial
"The women who won't live that their sex is held back in business, politics, industry and marriage is developing-one in up to their professional respone which men and women share sibility make it hard for all the
Mrs Millicent C. Mcintosh, president of Burnard College, Bald that women can't put
And
the blame on men, if they foot ed. As a result, a new type of talents and tastes," sho explain-
the professions.
obatacio
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As Grandmother's
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GET YOUR WAIST DOWN by optical illusions. ONE: THO right
The boldest fashion in bridal girdle. A close-fitting, elasticland Wales girdle should NODAY'S woman dares a lingerie is the shortie gown, got your waist meantremont Bikini suit at the which hits just about the knees, Full of waits length bridal 2* beach, but when she selecte ensembles in white, blush pink down by an inch,
TWO: Choos, well-cut belts her trousseau', she is as or such combinations as white
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responsibliltled "Both for the women who will,”, sao' suid. over your dresses and dirts. A modest as her grandmother. over pale pink or gray-blue, are "The greatchi
children and for the support of B woman has to overcome is the the family, and their roles in Bryn Mawr College and chooollect" your waist. A curved envers up. Dentureness is corrier tailors.
Mrs McIntosh, who attended three inch beib vems to Bridal lingerie this season best sellers, according to
makes it looke panowar at to the extreme. projudley of other women," said the community, and the small, dark-haired woman with sparkling blue eyes and rendy, wit,
Hopkins University,” becsilla World War II showed men Columbia Uni wamily, in 1947,
dean of Barnard C part of that women dould Be successful and in 1952 was divers the pre in their role as the pinch-sidential, title, she prefers to be FOR SPITE
hitting head of the family, sho called "Ster?, although she holds Bald.
**^ni Ph.D. from John Hopkins, Fire Women are their own worst
Mrs Melatosh) sald that we already have one doctor enemice," she commented in an women also would have to lopen the the family," she said. Interview. o. lbg submerged, to wheps profetorikk respons fuband. If Dr Hamid Kotht they want to keep all outer ability if they are,ként ou de sithe) Columbia Frankry women there."
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Murray Hamburrtor, one hond of manufacturer," said the exifodral for one train is disappearing. Now the "Alatrém is on volume of skirt, ring, mimus "seYmną! Jorde of fabric for her tracing on if they floor. Charural look like moeit noturers Lasture while over
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