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Show Where Figures Are Made to Order. Women whom nature has wronged in their physical physi-cal make-up may take courage if we are to believe the message a Chicago dressmaker sends out. This fair expert declares that there is no defect in figure that she cannot overcome. The only difficulty she is unable to master is that of height. . Barring this negligible quantity she can turn slab-sided females into women with figures that are beyond criticism. Of course this benefactor of womankind cannot build a figure as symmetrical as that of Powers Greek Slave, the most beautiful figure In marble in America, for that was a composite of sixteen almost perfectly formed women. However, the majority of women will be satisfied with one-sixteenth of the points scored by this figure in stone. But this Chicago Chi-cago dressmaker is a wonderful woman if her promises prom-ises are worth anything. She not only declares she can "preserve the graceful curves and general symmetry," sym-metry," but she continues: "It does not concern me exactly what the forearm fore-arm or the calf of the leg should measure. It is how big or how long are certain measurements as compared com-pared with others those particular measurements which the dress can be made to emphasize or modify." mod-ify." Of course all this is intensely scientific and perhaps per-haps embarrassing from a masculine standpoint, but the Chicago woman's idea of a perfect figure is equally as interesting: "Height, 5 feet 5 inches; but measure under arm, 34 inches; bust measure over arm, 42 inches; length of body, eight times length of head; width of shoulder, shoul-der, twice width of head; length from chin to top of breast bone, one-half length of head ; from top to bottom of breast bone, one-half length of head ; from breast bone to waist line, length of head; from waist line to beginning of lower limbs, length of head; to the middle of the thigh, length of head." Summed up the Chicago modiste's announcement announce-ment means that women who aside from height fail to meet these measurements, may be made to do so when fully dressed. But we cannot overlook the fact that this expert and scientific padder of figures fig-ures does not promise to mould forms that will stand the same tests as those applied to the classic females in marble who are so perfect as to be adorned the most when not adorned at all. The Chicago Chi-cago woman's plan is alright but it requires clothes to make it stick. |