Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-10-23 | Page 10 | Modern Girl Can't Squeeze into Wasp Corset

Modern Girl Cant Can't Squeeze Into Wasp Corset Three ears years have al allowed al- al lowed th the female from devinc to revert rt to tho tio e contours of 2000 years ago agro This was vas discovered phen hen the de designers desIgners designers de- de signers of gowns for costume plays tried to force the tho figures of ot modern American girls Into the show iron-show stays stas of the seventeenth century It elm ply couldn't be lone clone de despite le- le spite the strength of Iron and canvas can can- vas The resulting investigation In proved ed that the figures of ot women had undergone radical since the di days s at of the asp v ladies of ot 1750 1760 Tho The soft sort the modern girlish figure it s It found re resembled resembled re- re those of t thY ancient Greek maidens But the seventeenth se h century century cen con tury I ladles ladies had been all squeezed out of shape shap by tho the application of ot unbending corsets It was brought out during the Investigation of or figures that the point of least circumference of or the modern girl was three Inches IndIes higher high high- er on her her- body than the ladles of oft t the he courts Q o Q medieval European kl kings Every artifice of ot modern costume designers has been hOln used to gl give o a a. seventeenth e h century r appearance to fc J the i waists I o present day t actresses c S In the of or Pola Negri's now hew f vehicle The Spanish Dancer Ir Iron and canvas corset were worn by the players willie wHile ea- ea s- s c costumes gave an even iurU further r touch of slimness to the tho waists waists-pt tf tho the actresses s In m this colorful old Spanish drama The were vre reproductions I of those worn by historic characters characters charac charac- Lets Let's of that day dav Data on these costumeR costumes cos cog was was' obtained from a a. collection collection tion of or photographs of ot famous paintings gathered especially for tor forthe forthe the by the tho Producer Herbert Herbert herbert Her Her- bert Brenon Drenon one of ot Paramount's Paramount s lea leading directors lr