| Show r r z 1 r r. J r f. f r l U L I B- B b J n Q U D 4 the b j 11 e ph E ij I s Jf J n n Thi 4 t rn Jm ar E T J iIi r i I ri f 1 D Doctors oc t ors Pr Protest 0 t es t v I. I p 4 I 1 L' L t 1 Vogue ue of Imitating Ml g iSi W IF f t a cc of Pharaohs Ei Wrapping Bod bodies es in n Tight Fitting Tight Fitting 1 Clothes as Menace to Health r. r t. t I h E g. g 2 Physicians say that unless modern modem women cease the practice of binding their bodies incalculable injury will result not only to the women themselves but to well x Jr as AT the Chin Chinese se women have been een V VV remonstrated with all through modern modem ages for doing to their feet fashionable women in both Europe and America are now beginning to do to their bodies It is the irony of the situation dress reformers contend that just as aa Western civilization has hass managed managed managed man man- aged by persistent crusading and preaching to about do away with the obnoxious foot lacing of the tho pretty little e eyed almond-eyed women in the flowery kingdom kingdom king king- dom our own women here should go their Eastern sisters one better and indulge ge in what is extremely more harmful harm harm- ful binding ful-binding binding up not their feet but their entire bodies All this concern not only among dress Reformers but more markedly still among physicians ministering to the health of wealthy and fashionable women is caused by byan an amazing practice practice practice tice that has just been instituted following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing In the wake of the latest and quite drastic fashion edict from Paris This contained the disturbing news that thatto thatto thatto to be in style this coming year women would have to be as slim as a a. slat Imagine then the consternation of conservative con- con family doctors and specialists to discover that their patients are tightly bandaging then their bodies with wide strips of sticking plaster in order to achieve this latest untoward mandate of the minute Mummy l bi binding ding is the name nam given to this astonishing new practice and apt indeed it is For it is gener generally lly agreed that womans woman's subconscious mind at least has gone nowhere in the world but to the tomb of the Pharaoh for this her latest stunt committed in the name of fashion H HAS AS the modern modem woman suddenly developed developed developed de de- de- de a mummy complex In Paris and on the Riviera one cant can't help noting mummy dances are are the newest craze The partners in the the I dance who try to look as much like mummies as x possible are revealed to the audience audience stretched out in a sarcophagus in thelast thelast the thelast last moments of an long age-long sleep Presently an arm twitches a leg moves s and the mummies wake up to express their new-found new joy of life in a series of Egyptian dances Then they go back into the tomb again These are causing great comment and excitement in the Parisian theatres and dance places and it is being predicted that it will not belong belong be belong long before some enterprising revue producer in America will be showing y similar weird to audiences inthis inthis in inthis this country t Doctors however in England America America America Amer Amer- ica or France itself are not concerned with this latest vagary of entertain entertain- entertainment ment went for jaded tastes What concerns them about the mummy erase craze craze is that phase of it which seems to have laid hold on otherwise sensible and normal women and which is threatening to prove itself itsel of incalculable danger to their bodily health and in fact to the health of future generations generation I When the custom of tight lacing so pronounced in th the tha Gibson girl with her wasp waist went out of style the family doctor and the specialist breathed a sigh of relief for th this s was considered a most harmful institution Readers Headers will remember remember remember re re- re- re member what widespread warning and preaching were broadcast that women of ot the early nineteen hundreds might realize what great harm they were doing to th themselves by following so dangerous a mandate of Dame Fashion Injurious a as as' as tight lacing was however specialists specialists' I Inow now declare that this newest form of body ody restriction is a thousand times r M 7 p pc o. o c y I YS a af f h ht t y I b Jn N. 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E rZ 4 To be in style you have to be as slim sUm sUmas as a slat this season according to the edict from Paris hence the desire to reduce and bring the feminine form within the lines of the prescribed sil- sil ette Herewith is presented The Coming Figure as portrayed by Mile Mlle Ree the Parisian Ressy dancer in a pose pos described a as the fashionable figure for 1924 more d dangerous for in t the e wasp asp waist days dayss only a part of the bod body was confined confined con con- fined while now abnormal pre pressure sure is IS placed on the chest and stomach organs as well Every one In these advanced days knows of course the imp importance ce of pr proper per breathing In In the ol old times for instance it was almost unheard of for fora a man man or woman to have a nasal operation operation operation opera opera- tion unless some head condition had become painfully acute Now it is an accepted matter for nose nose and throat specialists to to clear to-clear cl clear ar the nasal passages by Sf v operation for r any sort of Persistent ill-health ill condition at all And why To promote proper breathing So important important important im im- an adjunct of mental and physical physical phy phy- phy- phy well-being well has unrestricted respiration tion come to be considered by modern medical science that any step which will further it is is regarded as vital Almost every form of exercise exerCise has as as' as one of its chief reasons for existence the fact that it promotes and aids breathing An exercise exe-cise which does proper not include this feature is short lived It It is is hard to determine between cause and effect in m discussing the change in women's clothing Did the vogue of athletics cause a change in dress or or- did a change in in dress make the pation patron of girls in athletics possible So close are the two interwoven that they they seem Ji to x have 6 devel developed Ped simultaneously With the coming of the ultra-slim ultra figure the athletic girl is being crowded out of the picture and physicians and physical instructors all over the Country country coun Coun- try have raised their voices in h her r be behalf be behalf be half and in behalf of generations generations' to come It is because the mummy mode strikes so directly at the delicate breathing mechanism of the he human body that specialists specialists protest it is is an out-and-out out menace Breathing under such intense pressure becomes extremely difficult The lungs become cramped and one one prominent New York specialist has r re- re w 9 o u 1 7 1 I i 1 1 I 1 Y sv i if j f Df t 4 r i ir 1 j I j r 4 1 l' l 4 i I j o o gl g j f j 13 I The likeness in figure between n I 4 the modern girl and the Egyptian tian iron mummy may easily 1 be seen ti 1 11 Ill in in this p pose se of a well-known well l fashion model swathed in one of the creations of conof conI contrasted con con- I r with the figure figur of a yr rl mummy of ages ago e 7 l i 1 fe 4 Y Mummy binding is the name given to the astonishing new practice of bandaging the feminine form with wide strips of adhesive tape and draping the body with closely clinging clothes For this style novelty the fashion designers have gone back to the days of the Pharaohs under the influence of the prevailing interest in ancient archeological research fused to put any limits on serious chest conditions to which h this fashion so lightly entered into may lead Add to a possible serious lung condition condition condition con con- other equally serious complications complications complications always apt to result when organs in in the stomach and abdomen are unduly restricted and it can be readily understood understood understood under under- stood why the medical world is standing more mor or less aghast at womans woman's latest seeming willing sacrifice of herself and her health on the altar of fashion All women of course who are attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to be in the mode dress re reformers reformers reformers re- re formers and doctors admit do not resort to the extreme measure of winding themselves about with wide adhesive tape When they do not however many of them swathe themselves so rigidly in some other fashion they may have discovered that so far as restriction goes it amounts almost to the same thing The edict for the stem pipe-stem silhouette went forth with almost flabbergasting effect at the first big dressmakers dressmaker's opening of the Paris seq season on just a few weeks or so ago The opening was at Georgette's and the slogan for the evening evening evening eve eve- ning and therefore for the season soon came to be Any woman who is not built like a slat will not be fashionable this year Georgette's models were literally taking breath-taking in their ectoplasm slen- slen Not a hip not a curve was insight in insight insight sight just a straight unbroken line Many of the tho dresses were so tight that the mannequins seemed to have hobbled knees Some of them looked for all the world like paper dolls The he waistline was invariably four inches below the the- hips v The binding of feet by the Chinese women in in order that they might re remain remain re- re main tiny has always always been considered d f 1924 by Public Le Ledger nr Company as the illustration arch-illustration of what torture a woman will suffer to measure up to her idea of what constitutes beauty But to tell telI the truth modern times abound with examples of almost equal follies follies even even if they ar are are not so picturesque picturesque picturesque pic pic- and so much talked about There is the tho classic example of spindly three-story three heels for instance At one time women of this country wore such high slender heels that it was al almost almost almost al- al most impossible for them to walk The country became flooded with protests against them One orthopedic specialist special special- Dr H. H of Brooklyn writing in the New New York Medical Journal went as far as to say that the effects of high heels were so reach far ing that if legislation were enacted to prevent their circulation and wear one of the most potent factors in undermining undermining undermining under under- mining the vital health of present an and d future generations would b be eliminated He pointed out that when high heels were worn the body was so shifted from its normal alignment that there was some strain on virtually every organ There was so much agitation about the ultra high French heels everywhere that for the most part women have been educated away from them Manufacturers Manufacturers Manufacturers themselves have helped a great deal by putting sensibly yet beautifully built shoes on the market THE HE wasp w waist also called down on its dangerous slenderness similar censure but here too there came modification modification modi modi- until those who had been loudest in crying out against the corset came to acknowledge finally acknowledge finally that the proper sort of corsets had bot both a curative and preventive preventive pre pre- value in relation to women's health In fact just before that period when flappers first began to park their corsets when they went to dances they began to be talked about as public bene bene- factors It was around this time that women began to enter what is is often called the athletic period Not only did they start to wear sensible clothing but they took up golf made a religion of hiking and indulged in many outdoor occupations that were heralded as the dawning of a anew anew anew new era of health for the weaker sex This era has not at all declined so faras far faras faras as exercise e in the open is concerned Picture then the shock for physical instructors in instructors in- in doctors and the others interested interested inter inter- ested just these very sensible women going in for mummy for mummy binding bindings ALL LL the golf playing In the world a Chicago doctor recently asserted will av avail il nothing if mothers and grownup grown- grown in this fashion fashion fashion fash fash- u up u daughters persist new ion of cramping their chest and stomach org organs ns They can do the daily dozen until they drop he continued and it will count as nothing if they do not give nature somewhat of a sporting chance chanca during the rest of the day Physicians are inclined to look in indulgently indulgently indulgently in- in on the foibles of their wealthy Y patients when they do not interfere with their health They smile at flappers who wear rouged knees and insisted on having butterflies painted just above the ankle where they fought vociferously voc vociferously er- er against having a vaccination mark They put these vagaries down downto to childrens children's pranks When they do not condemn cigarette smoking for a beautifully beautifully beautifully beau beau- g gowned patient it does not matter specially to the doctor if the cigarette which is daintily puffed i matches exactly the gown gown gown-a a fad by the way very much indulged in now The luminous hair fetish now gone in for by smart matrons and debutantes who want something different leaves the medical men cold If dancers wish to treat their hair so they may glow like fireflies when the lights are switched off all well and good The world is wide and theres there's room enough for everybody tUT BUT UT mummy binding J- J JWill Will the sensible woman of today consent to bind herself up like a Pharaoh of old in order that she mayobey may mayobey mayobey obey the tho latest caprice of that most capricious dame dame Fashion Or will she as has has so oft often n happened in the past find find with her ingenuity some happy medium that will offend neither Lady Style nor or the tho family doctor Jt It is not the slightest exaggeration to say that many any of the smartest new frocks are so o tight that one must either cither take tako the choice of hopping with two feet up the tha step of the trolley car or the taxicab or splitting th the whole CI creation |
