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Show I HEALTH Firm Muscles for Corsets The modern fashionable figure is one with flat, firm, abdominal muscles, slender waistline and streamlined hips. To give an illusion illu-sion of these proportions,- most women resort to supports of one sort or another and, even though present day foundation garments have little resemblance to the viselike vise-like corsets of a generation ago, they still have faults. For example, exam-ple, I know some women who insist in-sist that they always get a backache back-ache if they go without their girdles gir-dles for an hour. In other words, they are admitting that they have allowed their corsets to become crutches upon which weakened muscles must lean for support. Nature gave us a natural corset in the muscles of the back and abdomen, ab-domen, but in order to do its work well it must be kept firm by daily exercise. I know that in many postoperative post-operative cases and in certain posed conditions of the internal organs or-gans a surgical belt is prescribed by physicians, but the use of such a garment should be supplemented supplement-ed by systematic exercise which in time will give tone and correct any existing weakness. In view of the fact that the abdominal muscles must perform the very important function of holding in place many of the internal organs the importance impor-tance of keeping them in tone is more than just for appearance's sake. I do not in any way condemn light, flexible girdles which give a smooth, unbroken line to the figure or offer support and protection pro-tection during active sports, but I do feel that women should not permit per-mit themselves to grow completely complete-ly dependent upon them when a simple routine of exercise will make them unnecessary. |