Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-05 | Page 11 | Corsets: Feminine Figures May Hit Right Proportions If Owners Pull the Proper Strings

Corsets Feminine Figures May Hit Right Proportions if Owners Pull the Proper Proper- Strings j UFORD BUFORD SOMMERS pc ITh The e well dressed woman this ye year will ill vear year a corset corset In in a pinch That's because the fashionable waist waist- ine Inc Is getting smaller says Mrs K M M. Ih lodes des of San Francisco who helped con con- l its C a regional sales meeting for a corset i pany here Tuesday The feminine figure is always in a state of flux lux Right now the Waistline is going up and the hips women hope are going down and never nver the twain shall meet Of course in the trade they dont don't say corset they corset they say foundation garment But the parsimony of modern journalism calls for one word where commercial people might use two Whether molding feminine curves or hanging over the back of a chair whichever whichever which ever way you look at it the corset is a avery avery avery very personal Item It has to fit the In For this reason the proper corset corset cor set has drawstrings As in politics a little pull will smooth out a lot of humps Further the is a student of geography A At M different altitudes In dif dU ferent climates the human body contains differing amounts of water Thus with the drawstring corset at sea level you might want to cast off a few lines Flesh sometimes comes in waves The human body is a fairly constant form but the fashionable figure is as flighty as a stock market quotation Therefore Therefore Therefore There There- fore underneath the corset there often is ismore more or more or less than less than meets the eye There r t is Is for example the false front or build up This to be sure doesn't fool anybody It merely makes for a more esthetic entity Then theres there's the function of taking It from where you dont don't want it and putting it where you want it Like in ships a matter of displacement That doubtless accounts for why vessels are spoken of in inthe inthe inthe the feminine gender To debate whether dress styles follow figure styles or vice versa is like arguing I J whether the chicken or the egg came first Technically the or modiste takes up where the left off The then begins from scratch Finally the corset is seeing better days The old fashioned whalebone stays are pretty much in the discard The corset unlike unlike un un- like an athletic coach doesn't ha have to take a ribbing I 1