Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — A Woman’s Figure. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Figure.

The outline of a woman’s figure should be like that of a classic Jar, slim at the neck and at the ankles and tapering slightly at the waist. The reason that all women do not look Just this way is because they will wear petticoats, and petticoats arc destructive to the symmetry of the jar. Petticoats .have flounces upon t-beiq, ajid flounpes make the dress set out, around the feet, and so a womaq, instead or looking slender at her ankles, looks very broad Indeed and big around, so that her figure more often resembles a beehive or a pyramid than that of "a, classical jar. If a woman Is large In the bust and large in the hips she should not allow her waist to taper to any great extent, because when she destroys her classical outline and makes herself look like an hour glass or a wasp. To quote from an artist who has made a speciality of women's figures: "The principle which should be adopted Is that of balancing the expansion of one part of the outline by such constriction of another part as is felt to be in due proportion.”—[Pittsburg Dispatch.