Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1919 — HAVE MOVABLE WAISTLINE [ARTICLE]

HAVE MOVABLE WAISTLINE

Many New Frocks Now Drape Over, and Few Show Actual Basque Effects. Though waistlines are not as tiny as they were a generation ago, they are no less Important. And just because they are not slim as wands special attention must be given to their dress accessories. Many of the new frocks and particularly evening frocks —have bodices that drape over the waistline and a few frocks show actual basque effects, with a deep point extending down over the front of the skirt. Few women realize the importance of studying the question of the waistline in proportion to the whole figure. A waistline too low may give a bulky, and clumsy effect to a short woman, and a waistline too high on a tall, lanky woman is .even more unfortunate. Fashion permits the waistline to be anywhere now between armpit and hip—graceful proportion is the one .imperative requirement. Your waistline may look all right as you stand in front of your dressing-table mirror, and probably it is all right as far as the upper part of your figure is concerned. But study the effect before a full-length mirror and decide whether you really look better with a little higher or a little lower waistline. And stick to the effect decided on. The corset has little to do with a waistline’s location these days. Frocks are so loose in cut that a belt or sash may be put anywhere between bust and hips and over the straight-line corset the costume will hang all right.