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TOO TALL.......too short

whichever you are,

CECILE LAVIGNE gives you the solution to your dress problems.

DON'T you care, tall girl, if

rudo little boys call out after BENINGTON, as usual,

you, "Is it cold up there?" You

have a dowry of length of limb, Ssupports with skoches

a long, generous line between

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bust and waist for which most walst, with the fronts curving well women would barter precious "was. But they would be better double-breasted, with broad shoul- jewels.

ders. A contrast coat and skirt is Your neek is usually pretty like a fine height cutter, especially If the swan's, and, so long as you limit coat is a large patterned your male company to men as fall check, or, In the case of a silk sult, በዚ or taller than yourself, you flowered. cannot help looking distinguished, something special, rarer than

plaid or

A wide corselet belt in a vivid

or contrast to the dress is another good dinary women. A daughter of the way of lopping off stature. gods, in fact,

I were tall, I would

always

Never mind if you have bony have some sort of tunic dress in my to be wardrobe, because if ever there was knees. They are something proud of. A country's fate has been a heaven sent 'friend to tall giris, this is it. Tunics stay obstinately in known to hang upon bony knees,

Institon.

S for you five-footers, don't let

A me hear you until your UIERE in a feeling this year for

luck of, Inches. You are the

TH dear blouses of the short type, with

little woman who reaches no higher one

50

re

of two Inch wide horizontal 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.

of this cruel pockets in shirts. from all the bothers work. You make me feel

manly.

10FT

Their sports dresses should be in- cessantly interrupted with pockets, And when you add to the appear- at the breast, at the hips. Theirs ance of a curious baby the brains are the figures for jumper dresses, and shrewdness of a big business belled at waist man, you soar.

(here you get tivo

breaks). Picated skirts were burn for them. So were those becoming elbow muff sleeves,

When evening comes, right away. tall girls can lose an inch at a tit

Sul, despite all this fancy talk, tall giris and snail giris undoubtedly have more dress troubles than we five foot fives. Especially when they have an extra inch on or off that by wearing fut sandals. But they makes them too tall or too small.

must not make the mistake of puli- The idea, therefore, is to pretend, in on agein by wearing high Ed- by careful dress editing, that, one wardian coltures and decorations in

another, the odd inch isn't the hair.

way

there.

TF neck and shoulders and armis

Cust

This is achieved by keeping rigidly are showable-not always the to a couple of elementary rules,

with tail thin girls-a Jow Tall girls cut their height by break- ing the clothes line in some obvious quare decolletage is good. Especially. Is the wedge-shaped one, Small girls add to their belt which starts narrowly, then widens by never breaking the line in any towards the bosom. This is not a way whatever,

way.

The secondary rules are offshoots of the parent rules, plain common sense, if you think about them.

TALL girls, even if they are fully

fashioned, should

becoming

Shoulder strap devolletage, but is meant for sleeves, and fitted bodfees, light waists, full skirts.

Full skirts evening, dresses can be shortened by some movement occurr ating above the hem, a Victorian fes- tooned trimining, for instance, all round, or the skirt caught up and

broadening effects, Horizontal stripes

for them, great flowered prints, loose, held by a trail of flowers and stalk. bulky jackets over penell skirts. Corselet dresses, of course, belong fat hats this season's fatties are as good as they can ever hope for all girls. The divisions below not too high heeled, high fronted shoes.

bust and on hip are made to order. Sinky evening dresses should or knce horizontal They can wear, if they are sl carry low hip

drapery.. enough, suits cut with very tight skirts, and short, light, fed jackets. These suits can be made with wide, deep lapels linking at the

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TALL, girls should keep away from

the font. flowering fold of Greek-drapest evening dresses, from vertical stripes, from high hats, from unbelted dresses, from too much

They should always wear their street clothes pretty short. They can carry very large handbags,

Short girls have an easier time uyl: than tall girls because most of the big stores to-day have special smalt size departments, whereas tull, 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 amall rira

low-cul

wedge-

shaped dreniletage,

broken hemline for the tall.

Trim suits, high hate if you're small-remembering that a fall feather will tend

you several inches and that struight, brief skirts are all "dā” your · favour

Five foot four and under should avoid the flat hats. pleated skirts and hoxy jackets that are such a boon to the tall girl this

Great flowered prints and pleated skirts are for the tall girl; also the wide flat hats that go with them-elf Things to be shunned by the short. Notice the way the line of the frock is broken at the waistline by the dark sash.

They're all wrong-you can see it at a glance; and in this article Cecile Lucigne tells you why.

style is dead against them. They with a centre front throat to hem mustn't wear fat buts, full skirts, split. pleated skirts, boleros,. short fitted jackets, boxy Jacket, contrast dresses

ITTLE - Hírls should invold-belts.

and Jackets. Tlicy must avoid, like I bolt is inevitable, it must be the n

plague, everything suggested for of the same stuff as the dress, never tall girls. They should, in fact, go leather or anything that stresses the and do the exact opposite.

belt's purpos And with short- That is not always easy. Many sleeved frocks, long gloves, please. shortening of al- things haven't got exact opposites. We don't want But still there are plenty of good ready short arms. lines for the small girl to draw from. The greatest dress crime of a small The high-moulded bustling (bell- 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 costs with wide suits (need I say the stripes should fur-trimmed sleeves. go down?), highish hets, schoolgirl Reading all this, I feel I sound outfits (dark dresses, while Peter rather like teacher. "Do this. Don't Pan colors and cuffs), tiny flower- do that..

So, like teacher, I

ed prints, redingotes, tubular dresses shall now say, "Class dismissed."

Mind

your

UNDERELLAS 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 Lypewriting table as you read your shorthand- back, helping to hold the telephone to your ear, pressed against rails while you watch races and sporting events--and then you are unnoyed 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

clbows thlekly with an emulsion f ripe cucum- bers, which looks like thick pale green cream. A triat bottle costs only 15. 3.

Let this soak in for half an hour, while

• you, read or listen to the wireless, then wipe ̈* off with a linen handkerchief or an old face towel and rub well in a hyglenle skin cream specially made to heal cracks and to remove roughness.

year.

Here's a perfect outfit for the shart girl. Sleek 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

coat.

Elbows

If you are going out, wipe the elbows again and make-up with a liquid, bowder.

If you are going straight to bed leave On the elbows a little film of a massage creum 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 lined, dend skin on the elbows and blenches discoloured skin.

It is rubbed gently in with a circular aiovement and taken off with plenty more water,

Lemon Massage

Perhaps the cheapest and simplest trent- iment of all is one that may make some -women smile. Necessities are Д jor "lemon cream and a little indiarubber ball, The elbows should be well coated with the lemon cream and then managed over and the rubber ball. Exactly the over with same treatment to combat hard

akin and rough places, can be used for the palms of The hands, for the knees and the ankles.

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