The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-08
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A PERFECT FEMALE FIGURE.
i Sculptor's Idea ~ What Constitutes
Perfect Woman.

i Seulptor's Idoa NJ What Constitutes y
Perfect Woman,
"Defne good figure" said Mrs. Kel-
logg, the well known Detroit sculptor.
well, good figure il a rarity. There
nre so many girls who come to mo to
pose "a models, and so worry few who
are OF the least use. Their knees are
crooked and their arms bent and their
waists pinched in 49, there il always
something wrong, See that head and
trunk3 That IL Proserpine. She is
Hhiinking away from Pluto, who is
about 10 carry her away to the Internal
regions To he his wife. Now, do you
Know that II took sittings of live
different models to make that one
plccey Now, you can imagine how
did see good figure once. She WAS nj.
most perfect. You know the Venus de
Medici is supposed to ba the perfection
OF FORM. We'll, this girls 6gure was al
most identical with hers Had | wished
TO make a full sized statue | would not
nave chang q her one iota. She was a
'ery wealthy gi and very indolent.
lifting always IN her roOmsin neyIiree
costume aud taking 80 little exercise.
she grew 20 DO tho very perfection ot
grace, Every pose was Il study and
every move beautiful. And do YOU
know that girl terribly SO? Sho
compressed her waist, | should think,
seven inrhes smaller than IL naturally
was But then she wore corgetS Tor ONLY
about three hours each week, she went
out 80 little. She was very a,trnrtive
girl, hut not very pretty-verv good
hgureS seldom are. will give YOU her
dimensions. She was feet A. inches
hlSh. Then she measured thirtv-ono
| inches about the bust, tweutv-siN aud
u halt inches about the waist, thirty.tiye
inches over the hips, nine inches from
the armpit to the waist, eleven and "A
nall inches around the ball OF the arm.
nine and a fourth inches around the
elbow ana six and half inches around
the wrist. You see, she taperod four
aud n half inches from tho bust 10 the
waist; that ~ right. Small waists and
large hips looks horrible to nm artist:
| Then her hands and feet were good and
large. An artist always looks Tor large
| eNtremties, The feet of this girl wore
nine and II half inches long. What an
Immense hoOf? do You say. Well. not
so very. large, ] think IL was Il
No. 4 shoe she took. Now, here il
n cut of u foot not 80 large, Won
/ Will say. Well, II measures
| eight and half inches. The
| iiugo's Of the hand, loo.
must be long and taper with q curve
backwards At the tips. Women have
come To mo 30 proud OF their hands,
such tiny hands, aud yet perfect dcfor-
IN ties, with ovUry ingor warped and
! crooked.
81 should hlve said, of course, that no
fg4re can be good unless well rounded
aud Tree from angles. | must confess,
though, that fine, staiucsuue figure
would not lOo6 well drapad In tho pro-
sent fashion. Yes, will give my idea
ol line figure in the present fashion.
bnst measure, ~ inches; waist, q; .
inches from urmpit TO waist; long farms
and long neck. BY neck | mean fro
the collS bone 90 the chm; and rpcol
lect this, | would far rather see tho
waist . inches than % This figure
sh"l ne feet a. 10 height once saw ~
hgnro All mirrd good deal that was "a
about The bus, and 70 about tho waist. -
! Detroit Free Press.