1941-02-25 — Page 11

›By George MacManus

QUIET-BROTHER JIM

PRACTISING JIM

SAID THE ENVIRONMENT IS BETTER HERE THAN

AT HIS HOUSE-

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Flatter Your Figure

Hessons and thighs

a

are the fig- une problems when it comes to buying bathing

Some women are too heavy and others are far too thin Many Women have reached the entelusion that It is worth gething suits custom made for after all, they reveal fig- ure flaws more than evening. gowns! (ne also wishes while swimming and while folling about Nothing can be more dis- tressing than a bathing suit which rides up or which persists in re- vealing part of one's boson.

ease

I asked Madame Adrienne, bath- ing suit stylist for a leading New York department store, tu give me a few pointers to pass on to you. She came right to bat by saying, "A bathing suit is only as flattering as its fit! Even the most beautiful figure loses beauty if the suit it wears has unsuitable lines." One of her pet peeves, she says, is a suit cut so short that leg flesh bulges, or part of the buttocks are revealed. That's one of my pet preves too, and it should be one of yours!

To Flatter Bosoms

Madame Adrienne pays much attention to the brassiere section. She feels 2 bathing suit should provide a good firm uplift, whe- ther the bust is very tiny or very full. With cunning dressinaker details she flatters all types.

For the full bust, or pendulum bust, she provides a deep snugly fitting uplift pocket and then soft- ens the line by putting a soft roll cuff across the top of the bodice. Or she places a large bow of the material at the base of each shoulder strap and allows il to fall gracefully over the breast which minimises the fullness.

A

B

-mitys hautes

A slightly flared skirt which is detachable is flattering to thicken.

minimises the

bosom full ing thighs (a), and the soft roff cuff

For the slim-waisted. held high through cunning uplift pocket.

suggests soft strap bows full-botomed figure, Madame Adrienne and snug diaphragm fitting as illustrated in (b). The older woman takes great joy in the half-bolero suit which also has a detachable skirt of flattering length.

to ease lieve that halter

necks provide

seams. This does much the self-consciousness of older sufficient support for heavy, re- Another little trick which sien-

they don a swim laxed pectoral muscles. To achieve derises the very

heavy bosom of women when

the look of firm youth the bra

the older woman is by use of a suit! half-bolero sewed into the side Madame Adrienne does not be- section of a suit should be tied or

Beautify The Hands

fastened in back as high as a reg- ular brassiere. But to satisfy sun worshippers she cuts the suits low at the waist in back, so by lying face down on the beach, a woman may simply unfasten the bra sec- tion and get sun on her entire back clear to the end of her spine.

The Thigh And Waist

Obviously

Too frequently one sees a wom-, made it a habit to use them your an, in the age group of forty-hands would be ready most of the

the girl or woman plus, exquisitely dressed and coif- time to be taken out to a party! with a thick thigh cannot wear fured, but with hands that show You will find that a manicure as short a suit as the girl with indifferent care,

once a week, a professional one slim thighs. Snugly fitting trunks if you can afford it, does much inof proper length (considering Some may scorn cosmetics, but keeping your nails strong, beauti-one's weight and height) are ex- if you stopped to think what you fully shaped and your cuticle cellent to swim in, but this de- would do if you could never again smooth. I've known women who signer feels all

figures are flat. have a lovely bar of soap, a lipecmplained bitterly of their nails tered when out of the water by stick, or a skin cream, you would splitting or breaking off who dis wearing a slightly flaring. skirt feel pretty distressed, wouldn't covered that the weekly manicure, which may be buttoned over the you? Sometimes I think just the with between moments of care, trunks. possession of lovely cosmetics is restored the strength to nails, The middle section of a suit incentive enough for us to precn And no one can deny that the should fit superbly so there will ourselves. We suddenly want to varnish polishes have added much be no wrinkling of excess material, use those aids to beauty and into hand beauty. You may be con- or material wrongly draped. Full- so doing our morale lifts and we servative and prefer the neutral bosomed, small-waisted figures find ourselves thinking mote or softer rose shades, or you may have this detail to consider. clearly and acting more charming.be quite modern and like the more:

So it is with lovely hands. If vivid polishes, but whichever type we spend sumclent time to keep you are you know that nails, even

A dark suit, like a dark dress, our nails nicely shaped and mani-ly lacquered take on a beauty they cured and our hand skin soft and cannot otherwise attain.

is more slimming than a light unstained, we find that our hands New opalescent enamels have colour. It may be lightened by de- act pretty. Truly they do, They made their debuts-in the stronger tails on the bodice in a contrast pick up things more easily, they pinks, and one soft rose. They are ing shade. White is always charm- seem to be more accomplished, decidedly dress-up polishes for ing. especially on a brunette, if they become dramatic and add to they dry with a sheen like mother your figure is not too large, Ico our allure.

of pearl over the colour,

blue and rich forest green should Older women should never think: Keep always a couple of orange, be a redhead's or blond's choice: tan tend to give a they can get by" with a hurried sticks handy of two sizes. Use Yellow and nati cleaning and a dab of cream these for pushing back the cuticle; muddy look to one's skin unless or lotion. Older skin requires and cleaning, then you will not you bronze very deeply. Madame lubricating and bleaching, Older injure your halls. Don't wear them Adrienne's favourite of all shades handa require. good brushings for too long if you must use your is a rich cocoa, particularly nat- stimulation. On your cosmetic hands much- in fact, truly long tering to blondes who have soft

brown eyes!, counters are these aids, and if you nails are for the younger girls..

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