# Fashions And Figures

WHAT IS SPECIAL DESIGNING?
THE only way in which you will ever procure a foundation garment that will be exactly right for your figure in every way is to have it especially designed for you. And the one and only system of Special Designing is Spencer Service. The Spencer corset that you will wear will be designed especially to meet your needs, for since no two figures are exactly alike, or need exactly the same sort of treatment, we do not make any "ready-to-wear" corsets or girdles.
Instead, trained Spencer Corsetieres take accurate measurements, record such detailed description of your figure lines, that our expert designers can create a picture of your figure. They know exactly what you need to assure perfect comfort, slender proportions and the smartest possible lines.
After a designer has worked out a plan for your garment, it is cut and made especially for you.
There is not another corset like it in the world, for it is designed for you and you alone.
The cost? Surprisingly reasonable! :
Spencerette
YOU may have any kind of foundation garment your figure requires — by means of Spencer Designing Service.
If you are not overgenerously proportioned,
a Spencerette (pictured
at left) may give your
figure all the disciplining
it requires. It will be
made just or you.
A pane of gleaming
silken stuff or its smooth,
straight back. Pliable,
lightly boned, and at the
waist on each side band
of elastic. Below the hips
on both sides elastic so
place it holds the garment snugly in position, slenderizing hips an
thighs. Such is the Spencerette.
No two Spencerettes are alike. Each one is desgned to meet
the particular needs of the one person who is to wear it. Yours
may close with hooks an eyes at side-front or with lacing at front—
as you choose! :
Slenderette
YOUNG girls and slim women require an individually designed
garment as well as their fuller-figured sisters. Youthful lines
must be preserved or dangerous curves will soon beset them. For
such figures we suggest the Slendere pictured below.
A Slenderette offers
the youthful figure just
the support it requires.
As light in your hand as
a bit of lingerie—pliant—delicately beautiful, it
follows every movement
of the figure, contributing
a gentle restraint.
It's a brief little garment—but ever so efficient. Wrap it about your
figure, hook it at the side-front, figure, and your youthful
lines will be preserved.
A Slenderette, designed
just or you, will e different from every other
Slenderette, because it
will be designed to meet
the particular needs of
your figure. :
Spencer Dress Corset
FOR those whose hips
I must be minimized considerably or whose backline requires straighening—or who are annoyed
by accumulations of fat
in the wrong places—
then a Spencer Dress
Corset as illustrated at
left.
You will breathe a sigh
of relief when you slip
into it, so comfortable
will it be, for it will be
designed and made especially for you. Gently,
but efficiently, it will flatten your abdomen and
diaphragm, reduce your
hips and straighten your
back-line. It is light,
softly pliable, luxurious,
and has power to make
unlovely curves enticing.
You will be amazed to find how it will rest you by supporting
those sagging muscles that cause fatigue, headache and backache.
Your Dress Corset may be made with lacing in front, or with clasp
In front and lacing in back. :
Supporting corset
DO you suffer from backache—or headache? Are you easily
fatigued? Have you a scar from an operation, or a hernia or
floating kidney which tortures you? Don't just grin and bear ill
Have a Spencer Supporting Corset made especially for you.
A Supporting corset,
such as is pictured on this
page, whose inner belt is
easily adjusted, will support a fallen stomach.
And by taking pressure
away from nerve-centers
it will give you relief from
aching nerves and muscles—and perfect figure
lines!
Supporting corset
Where the condition
requires it, soft pads for
hernias or for floating
kidneys or operation scars
are attached. 30,000 physicians recommend this corset to patients and to
women who require support. Other women wear
it as a "health and beauty
habit." :
Spencer-All
THE delights of an all in-one garment are
many. When one can
wrap a pliant garment
about the figure, hook it
up, and find that it provides a smooth, unbroken
foundation for smart
gowns it is, indeed, a
convenience.
But the thing is to get
the right one-piece garment. It must cling to
the figure without a break
when one sits as well as
when one stands. And
only a garment specially
designed for each wearer
can actually do that—a
Spencer-All, for instance.
(Pictured at left)
A Spencer-All, designed just for you, will provide a garment
that is lightly boned, with elastic insets just where your particular
figure requires them, and topped with a bandeau that at once
minimizes and uplifts the bust. It is sleek, supple, luxurious. :
Spencer-All No. 5
FOR the woman who prefers a one-piece garment but whose figure
is better suited to a separate corset and bandeau, the garment
portrayed below provides a delightful compromise. It's an "all-in-one" affair. Just slip it on, hook it up—and that's all!
Have one designed especially for you, and you
may rely on it to restrain
your diaphragm, support
and flatten your abdomen
(by means of an adjustable inner support), slenderize your hips and
thighs and give you a
beautiful back-line. The
back is a one-piece, unbroken line from top to
hem. The front is in two
sections, allowing of adjustment at the diaphragm
(an obliging feature!).
Your garment may be
made with or without
inner support—as you
prefer. This garment is
known as Spencer-All No.
5. :
Belt De Luxe
HERE is a garment attuned to the swift
tempo of modern life.
Slip it on over your head,
or just step into it. and in
a flash it is adjusted to
your figure.
If you must catch an
early car to the ofFice, or
serve breakfast to a hurrying family, or rush to
get the children off to
school, you will bless your
Belt De Luxe, as the garment at left is called.
Have one especially designed for you, and you
will own a garment that
will support your abdomen, lend straightness to
your back, confine your
hips and thighs and distribute flesh evenly.
A Belt De Luxe will provide a glorious new freedom of motion
such as you have never had before. Note how it swathes the thighs,
and how adequately it constrains the hips. Many women order a
Belt De Luxe as a "second garment", for general wear. :
Spencer-Band
YOU may feel joyously free and yet be adequately supported in a
Spencer-Band designed just for you. (Pictured below.) It's a
charming garment! The back-lines, hips and front are ever so lightly
boned, and flexibility is provided by deftly-curved insets of elastic.
The waistline is defined
by narrow bands of elastic, and closes with lacing
in front or back or with
hooks and eyes at side-front. A Spencer-Band,
though remarkably supple,
will confine your hips,
improve your back-line
and make your front-line
straight and lovely. Such
is the magic of Spencer
Individual Designing!
The boning used in
Spencer garments is flexible as a willow-reed. The
fabrics and elastics are of
the finest quality. A Spencer garment will wear
longer than any other garment and will keep its
lovely lines as long as it
lasts! :
| Pendulous Abdomen Pendulous Abdomen | What Does Your Mirror Reveal? | What Does Your Mirror Reveal? | What Does Your Mirror Reveal? | Full Thighs Full Thighs |
| Pendulous Abdomen Pendulous Abdomen | Fatigue Fatigue | | LordosisLordosis | Full Thighs Full Thighs |
| | Fatigue Fatigue | Spreading Hips | LordosisLordosis | |
| High Full AbdomenHigh, Full Abdomen | Spreading | Spreading Hips | Hips | Full Back TypeFull Back Type |
| Full Back TypeFull Back Type |||
| Before doning Spencer | Before and after donning a Spencer | After donning Spencer |
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| A | B |
| Form 492 12-30-500M | Printed in U. S. A. Copyright 1930 |