1939-04-05 — Page 16

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

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These exercises corre et shoulder unloveliness.

Shoulders Indicate Personality

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1939

Smart Design For Easter

This

The lines of this dress are very sort that flatters your figure. simple, you see-placing all the cm- dress has the soft fullness and sup- phasis on the beauty of your chosen ple slimness of the smart silhouette, print. That's the nice thing about and the effect is so simply and easily has shirred making your own frocks, you can get achieved. The bodice exactly the motifs and combinations shoulders, and is fitted in to a tiny waistline: The skirt is shirred at

of colours that suit you best! And all the detailing of this design is the the sides, only.

are held in position by muscle alone.

The, heart shapped neckline is very becoming.

Silk prints, flat crepe and taffeta

So their rigidity is not a matter of are pretty materials for this design..

bone structure but is caused by the wrong use of the muscles which stiffen them."

These Exercises to Free Shoulders

Nearly all arm exercises will help to tone the muscles directly related to the shoulders and give you a free easy, and impressive car- riage. They will also banish the pains you frequently get after sit- ting and concentrating for hours on some work.

Exercise 1..

Exercise 11,

Extend the left arm in the air, the right downward, parallel to the A woman who has devoted much thrown too far back generally be legs. Sway to the other side in a of her life in study of the needs speak of the dictator or one who pendulum-like motion. In addition of the body, Miss Marguerite feels the need for keeping up to strengthening the chest and Agniel, believes strongly that the front, as is so often revealed by shoulder muscles, this is an excel- right kind of exercise will repay in the army officer, the drum major, lent stretching exercise for reduc- physical beauty the effort expended, or the fat dowager conscious of hering the hips and waist. and also encourage excellent health. social position who holds her should- Miss Agniel laments specifically ers back by an effort of will. Slop- occupations which cramp the chest ing shoulders always indicate and depress the chestbone as well winsome, clinging nature, and

Take a standing position clasp

of per the hands back as the ribs such as typists, office overburdened or discouraged

you, elbows workers and others who spend their son's shoulders invariably droop straight. Lunge forward with the days in sedentary work or in stoop forward.

right knee bent, keeping the left! ing positions.

"Shoulders are meant to be free," knee straight. This stretches and she claims, "are she continues, "just as bird's strengthens the drooped shoulders

are Well-wings

*meant to spread and improves the contour of good guides to personality.

fly. They of rigidity, and

at-bust. are only set shoulders, devoid

Reverse the movement. to the skeleton in

fifteen times in all. usually mark a person of initiative, tached

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Hunched shoulders frequently mark front, where the collarbones join the timid, nervous type. Shoulders the breastbone.

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