Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
APOSTLE OF THE NEW SHAPE
ELUCIDATES MYSTERIES
CAN CHANGE WORST FIGURE
Some Interesting Pointers and sug-
gestIons That May Find Ap-
plIeatlon In Los
Angeles
Special to The Herald.

A. c. White is in st. Louis to show
the women how to make their figures
resemble the letter S.
She made the first local demonstra-
tion for the benefit of a Post-Dis-
patch reporter in the parlor of the
Planters hotel using herself as a
model.
Miss White stood with her shoulders
straight UP, soldier fashion. She threw
her chest out and her waist in until
the line from her neck to her belt
buckle described the supper half of the
letter in question.
The lower half Of the "S'' was not SO
readily perceptible, at least to the un-
trained eye.
Miss Whites gown was fitted lightly
over her hips and her profile from the
back of her waist outward and down
ward described part of the lower half
of the alphabetical character, although
not all of it.
However, Miss White says the con-
tour of her figure as she posed before
the camera represented the new letter
rs" figure, and Miss White ought to
know as she invented it.
Miss White is president of the Ma
tional Dressmakers Protective associa-
ton. Her lectures on the art of maxi
ing dresses, and more particularly of
making shapes divine that can be
dressed have given her a widespread
reputation as the apostle of correct
womanly form.
This is her first visit to st. Louis
and she will lecture dressmakers each
day during the week and give corset
demonstrations at the Planters each
night during the week, men being
barred from the latter
Miss White is voluptuous woman,
She says her own figure is not per-
feet, as she is too short from the
waist down, but she says she can make
almost any figure perfect.
II will prove that at my corset DEM
onstrations," she says. 81 will take
the worst feminine figures L can find
in st. Louis and change them so they
can be dressed to look like they are
the real thing. 1 will get my poor
shapes from the women employed in
the hotel, If possible. If not, will
advertise for women with poor figures.
My idea is to show that any figure
can be attractively gowned, but it must
first be whipped into shape"
Corset Important Point
The first requisite to the letter IS"
figure, Miss White says, is the high
bust corset. To wear this, she adds,
the diaphragm must be looked after.
mo blouse effect goes with the high
bust corset" she explains, 'and there
fore all layers of fat that previously
were possible of concealment under a
blouse effect must go. No fat dia-
phragms with the letter 'S' figure"
The kangaroo walk and the hour
glass figure must be sacrificed, too,
Miss White declares, by those who de-
sire this sinuous latter-day figure.
I'm the kangaroo walk the shoulders
are bent forward" she states. I'm the
letter IS figure the shoulders are
straight up. The head is thrown far
back and the chin is tilted up, whereas
in the kangaroo figure the head is
pitched forward and the chin down.
"Of course, everybody knows that
the hour-glass figure is passe. The
body in the letter IS f1gure is directly
opposite. The body is straight from
the waist down. The knees are stiff.
The curve is located in the back of the
waist. This is new. The curve is very
important. 1t must be there to make
the figure young and pretty in 1906.
'Then the woman who would have
the letter IS figure must walk with a
light and airy tread. She must stand on
the balls of her feet. not on the heels.
She must lift herself with her chest,
not with her shoulders"
To Eliminate Double Chin
One advantage Miss White points
out in the letter rs" figure is that
the throwing back of the head does
away with a small double chin. But
she has remedy for a larger double
chin that is exciting.
She recommends that women with
double chins sleep on their stomach
with hard pillow under their chin
and their toes stretched out until they
reach the end of the bed. This, she
declares, will reduce the double chin.
Women must not mind, she adds, If
some Of the double chin is scraped off
by the hard pillow or IL their toes
bump painfully against the foot of the
bed.
Miss White also says that the long
neck is au fait this year and advises
women to sway their bodies as much
as possible, although not in public.
For street attire she recommends