TOO TALL... too short
whichever you are,
CECILE LAVIGNE gives you the solution to your dress problems.
DON'T you care, tall girl, I BENINGTON, as usual,
rude little boys call but after'
you, "Is it cold up there?" You
have a dowry of length of limb, supports with skochos
a long, generous line between
bust and waist for which most waist, with the fronts curvingt well women would barter precious away. But they would be better double-breasted, with broad shoul- jewels.
ders. A contrast coat and skirt is Your neck is usually pretty like a fine height cutter, especially if the as you limit coat is a large patterned plaid or swon's, and, so long your male company to men as tall check, or, in the case of a silk suit,
taller than yourself, you flowered. cannot help looking distinguished, something special, rarer than
u5
or
A wide corselet belt in a vivki
or contrast to the dress in another good
dinary women. A daughter of the way of lopping off stature. gods, in fact.
were tall, I would plways Never mind if you have bony luve some sort of tunic dress''in my Janees. They are something to be wardrobe, because if ever there was proud of. A country's fate has been a heaven sent friend to tall girls, this is . Tunics stay obstinately in known to hang upon bony knees.
fashion.
S for you five-footers, don't let me hear you grumbling at your
lack of inches. You are the
HERE is a feeling this year for
dear blouses of the short type, with
uttle woman who reaches no higher one
of two inch wide horizontal
So
ure
than a man's heart, the little darling tucks making a yoke line, Fine for who must be loved and protected tall girls. All yokes are. from all the bothers of this cruel pockets in shirts.
You make men feel more world.
Their sports dresses should be in- cessantly interrupted with pockets, manly.
And when you add to the appear at the breast, at the hips. Theirs brains are the ligures for jumper dresses, ance of a curious baby the
(here you get two and shrewdness of a big business belted at waist
breaks). Pleated skirts were born man, you sour.
for them. So were those becoming elbow muff sleeves.
Still, despite all this fancy talk, tall girls and small girls undoubtedly have more dress troubles than we five foot fives. Especlully when they have an extra inch on or off that makes them too tall or too small.
Wien evening comes, right away, tall girls can lose an inch and a half by wearing flat sandals. But they must not make the mistake of putt- The idea, therefore, la to pretend, on again by wearing high Ed- by careful dress editing, that, one wardian colares and decorations in way or another, the old inch Isn't the hair.
there.
TE neck and shoulders and arms
use
This is achieved by keeping rigidly
are showable-not always the to a couple of elementary rules.
with tall thin girls, low Tall girls cut their height by break-
square decolletage is good. Especially ing the clothes line in some obvious becoming is the wedge-shaped one, way. Small girls add to their height which starts narrowly, then widens
by never breaking the line in my towards the bosom. This is not a way whatever.
The secondary rules are offshoots of the parent rules, plain common sense, you think about them.
ALL giris, even if they are fully
shoulder strap decolletage, but is meant for sleeves, and fitted bodices, tight waists, full skirts.
Full skirts evening dresses eun be shortened by some movement occurr- Victorian fes- ing above the hem, a
for instance, tooned trimuning,
all round, or the skirt caught up and held by a
a trail of flowers and stalk. Corselet dresses, of course, belong bust and on hip are made to order. to fall girls. The divisions below
evening Slinky
dresses should carry low hip or knee horizontul drapery.
fashioned,
at should alni broadening effects. Horizontal stripes for them, great flowered prints, loose, bulky Jackets
skirts. over penell lat hats-this season's fatties as good as they can ever hope for
are not too high heeled, high fronted shoes.
They con wear, if they are slim enough, suis cut with very tight skirts, and short, tight, fitted jackets, TALL girls should keep away from These Buits can be made with the long, flowering fold of wide. deep lapels linking ot the
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Greek-draped evening dresses, from vertical stripes, from high huts, from unbelted dresses, from too much black.
always wear their clothes pretty short. They can carry very large handbags.
Short girls have an easier time buying than tall girls because most of the big stores to-day have special small size departments, whereas tall. thin girls frequently find that the clothes which are all right for length are too big everywhere else.
Otherwise, short girls are far more prohibited. A lot of the current
High-moulded bustling for the small girl.
low-cut wedge-
shaped decolletage,
broken hemline for the tall.
Trim suits, high hate if
you're small-remembering
that a tall feather will lend
you several inches and that
straight, brief skirts are all in your favour
Five foot four and under should avoid the far hats. pleated skirts and hoxy Jackets that are such a boon to the tall girl this
ucar...
Great flowered prints and pleated skirts are for the tall girl: also the wide Hat hals that go with them-a!! Things to be shunned by the short, Notice the way the line of the frock is broken al the waistline by
the dark sosh. -
They're all wrong-you can see it at a glance; and in this article Cecile Lavigne tells you why.
style is dead against them. They with a centre front throat to hem mustn't wear fal hats, full skirts, split.
pleated skirts, boleros, short fitted ITTLE gite should avoid belts. Jackets, boxy Jacket, contrast dresses
and jackels. They must avoid, like ad If a bell is inevitable, it must be the
plague, everything suggested for of the same stuff on the dress, never tall girls. They should, in fact, go leather or anything that stresses the and do the exact opposite.-
belt's purpose. And with short- That is not always easy. Many We don't want af shortening of al- sleeved frocks, long gloves, please. things haven't got exact opposites. But still there are plenty of good ready short arrast
lines for the small girl to draw from. The greatest dress crime of a small The high-moulded bustline (belt- girl is the one most frequently com- less), which gives apparent length mitted. For some unexplained rea- of limb, is excellent. So are straight, son she adores to wear finger-tip or fitting Princess frocks, stripes for three-quarter length coats with wide suits (need I say the stripes should fur-trimmed sleeves.
go down?), highlsh hats, schoolgirl Reading all this, I feel I sound outfits (dark dresses, while Peter rather like teacher. "Do this. Don't Fan collars and cutis), ny flower- do that.
So; like teacher, I
ed prints, redingotes, tubular dresses shall now say, "Cinss dismissed."
Here's a perfect outfit for the short girl. Sleck black crêpe for the frock, and
over it a white net coat hanging loose to the ground. The spiky bow in the hair adds to the impression of height, as do also the shoulder trimmings which finish the long coof.
Mind your Elbows
"INDERELLAS of the body are a woman's
elbows. Have you ever thought how hard they have to work, propping up your chin at the table in a restaurant, or at your typewriting table as you read your shorthand back, helping to hold the telephone to your car, pressed against ralts while you watch races and sporting events?-and then you are annoyed because the skin of your elbows is rough and wrinkled.
Have a heart and give an occasional beauty treatment, to your elbows. Cucumber Cream
Spread the surface of your elbows thickly with an emulsion of ripe cucum- bers, which looks like thick pale green. cream. A trial bottle costs only la. 3.
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Let this soak in for half an hour, while you rend or listen to the wireless, then wipe off with a linen handkerchief or an old face towel and rub well in a hygienic skin cream _specially-made-to-heal cracks and to remove
roughness.
If you are going out, wipe the elbows ageln and make-up with a liquid powder.
If you are going straight to bed leave on the elbows a little flm of a moɛsage crem called wool fat, which takes out the wrinkles. Wool fat is the nearest approach that the specialists have yet discovered to the natural fatty secretions of the human skin.
Here is another home treatment devised by an international specialist for elbows which do not do their owners credit. It consists of a wash, made to a paste with warm water in the palms of the hands, that removes lnrd, dend skin on the elbows and bleaches discoloured skin.
It la rubbed gently in with a circular movement and taken off with plenty more water.
Lemon Massage-
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Perhaps the cheapest and simplest treat- ment of all is one that may make some women senlie, Necessities are # jar of lemon cream and a little Indlarubber ball. The elbows should be well conted with the lemon cream and then massaged over and over with the rubber hall. Exactly the same treatment to combat hard skin and rough places can be used for the palms of the hands, for the knees and the ankles.
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