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Show THE GRECIAN BEND. From tho New York World. The edict of the Dressmakers convention conven-tion that woman .must once more assume as-sume the distortion of the "Grecian Bend" i not an unmixed evil. The fad wo all laughed at thirty years ago was merely a good Idea gone wrong In exaggeration. ex-aggeration. The common fault In the careless attitude at-titude both of men and women, especially espe-cially those of middle age, Is the "away-back "away-back slouoh." The frightful example of this offense stands Inelastic on hla heels, with his stomach protruding and his chin drooping lazily upon his flattened flat-tened chest! The enlightened, passing him with a shudder, declare that our mon are "not well set up." There Is a suspicion that women would more often fall under tho same criticism but for the kindlier concealment of their draperies. dra-peries. The distorted "Grecian Bond" Is not further from the Ideal In one direction than tho "swayback slouch" Is In tho other, and perhaps a few months' cult of the "bond" by llfo-long llfo-long devotees of tho "slouch" will help them to apprcclato and to cultivate tho golden mean. 1 |