THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1939.
Dress Sense Begins Next To The Skin
wear a suspender bolt that stops at every aspect of the female figure
your hip bone.
and graded their corsets according-
If you hike, play tennis or rido ly.
that in. Have I told you the story of the it is well to remember
They can give you uplift and woman who walked down a long none of these pursuits do uncon- passage in a strange house and won- trolled areas of flesh look becoming, control by clever cutting and two- The only place I ever hear anybody way stretch, and even if you are dered why on earth the woman
in frankly "comfortable," there is no coming the other way didn't pull admiring unconfined curves is
need to wear a bony harness. herself together a bit and then poems. nearly walked through the mirror?
It was the first time in her life that she'd had a good look at her- solf without knowing it.
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Silvaine has sketched three speci- ally good models. The first, worn
You wouldn't buy a hat without by the girl sitting at the typewriter,
is a "Filmy Twenty Imp." trying it on. **I like blue, my size is six and a half, and I want
made It is a step-in foundation wouldn't crown," flowers on the
cotton improve your
milliner's reputation in an exquisitely finished
weave, with a lace brassiere. It or your own.
will wash like a handkerchief and
A corset fitter should have the give you a clear-cut youthful figure.
You have only to sit in the corset department for half an hour realise that six women out of ten buy corsets for a creature of their same chance at your teeth. imagination.
The girl doing the housework is been wearing a light, but firm, corselet If you sag when you have
batiste embroidered She is usually 36in. round the sitting for a time, or if your back in tea rose-
on your feet with blue. hips.
she aches when you are . "or was last time was measured." And she needs only long-tell her. the slightest support ... no bones, please.
The brassiere is double net, and Lastex yarn after all, it was only If you are "hard" on your clo- the side panels of last year she began to wear any thes, mention this and she will find make it a plus garment for the wo- you a material which will stand up man who needs control below the kind of corset.
to more friction than that triple waistline. voile you are looking at now.
And it is hardly necessary to try it on, is it, because she knows at once just what suits her.
it
When she tells you that it will pay you to have two pairs at the Only the most exquisite tact and same time, take it from me that mirrors on four walls will get is not sales talk. these women to realise that figure they so charmingly describe
the
all,
Corsets, to be any good at has vanished, and that double ten- must be clean, and they won't be sion and firm uplift is what they unless they are washed often. Once need.
a week is recommended by most makers. A clean corset keeps its shape and its size twice as long.
It is plain sense to think of what you do when you buy a corset.
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Buy branded corsets.
You
have
If you spend most of your day sitting down it is not intelligent to find their makers
Daisy Brand
BUTTER
Made in the great continent 'down under' from the produce of one of the world's finest dairy herds. pure, creamy, golden, what better than Daisy Brand for goodness and food value?
Daisy Brand
The Dairy
Ca Li
$1.25 per lb.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD
STORAGE CO., LTD.
FURB FOOD SPECIALISTS.
An all-in-one corselet for the woman who needs control. below the waistline.
If you like a one-piece founda- tion wear it next your skin
and have it fitted like that, too. If the fitter has to cope with your belt on the feelings and a vest as well, she is
going to get discouraged.
The semi-step-in third girl is made of two-way mesh with Lastex panel and a clever zip
A good corset should improve fastener. The back and front panels of this belt are rigid an im- your posture. Try getting your portant point if your skirts suffer shoulder, hipbone and ankle in a from "seatiness."
straight line. Tilt your pelvis slightly upwards and watch its. effect on your side view.
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Get your corset big enough.
Sit down in your new corset be-
A tucked-in torso isn't going to fore you buy it, and go through a
help much if your hips get pinched series of familiar movements. every time you sit down. The will whole art of a clever corset is to studied give you spread-over elegance.
You need a rigid panel at the you'ro - inclined to be
If it pulls you here and con-- stricts you there say so, and you'll find the fitter getting enthusiastic about you.
A little co-operation from you is: all she needs to turn you out look- ing like the woman you want to be..
STUFFED MARROW
(OR MOCK DUCK)
Take 1 medium vegetable mar- row, 1 egg, 2 tablespoonfuls but- ter, 2oz. mushrooms, 1 small peel- ed onion, 1 teaspoonful minced parsley, 1 cupfuls breadcrumbs. 1 rasher bacon, 1 teaspoonful crushed herbs.
Halve the marrow crosswise, then cut in two, Peel and cut out seedy portion and place marrow in a saucepan of boiling water. Cover and simmer for eight min- utes. Remove rind from bacon and chop bacón. Add crumbs. minced onion, parsley, herbs, and chopped mushrooms. Season to taste with pepper and salt. Melt- and add butter and beaten egg to moisten. Mix all well together. Drain marrow and arrange half In the bottom of a buttered cas- sorole. Stuff and flatten stuffing. Cover with second half of mar- row, dot with butter, then cover casserole and bake in a moderato oven for one hour. Serve, with gravy or hot cheoso sauco, or when nearly cooked pour X plnt chéono sauce over and brown it in the oven or under the griller. De
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