Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — GIRDLE SHOULD BE NARROW [ARTICLE]

GIRDLE SHOULD BE NARROW

important Fact That the Woman of Middle Age Will Do Well to Remember. * If the middle aged* woman insists upon wearing a girdle, regardless of the length or width of her waist, she should have that girdle very narrow with long ends extending to the hem of her skirt A certain well dressed middle aged woman who looks much slighter and taller than her true measurements affects girdles of satin or velvet ribbon of black or a deep Ehade of a color. The belt portion of the accessory never is more than an inch broad and goes about her waist posing under two long ends, which are drawn over the belt but not knotted or bowed. And these ends are weighted invisibly, for that middle aged woman knows that to figures proportioned similarly to hers fluttering- ribbons and frivolous little trillings belong not