The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-11
THE STATUESQUE GIRL
By IMAGERY WELLS

If you are tall or large or stat esquue in your lines in any way, then you must see to it that your clothes take on stately proportions. If ycu are dressed for business, for parties, for street, for dancing, don't let your tastes stray, for one moment, into the class where the more~petite girl belongs by natural right.
 There is a mistaken notion that if girl who is beautiful Tn her stateli- ness wears clothes that fit her type she is making herself look old But that is quite, quite wrong. It is only when she chooses those clothes with lack of taste and conformity to mod ern styles that she finds herself look ing just the way she does not want to look. If she, on the other hand, takes every care to suit her dresses to her own personality then she is going to look as young as any of the fluffier things of her acquaintance, younger than they in fact and younger, often, than she really is. The lines of the dress need not be cutey -cutey to be young. They must be right for the personality, that is all. Think it overt There are stately young girls as well as giddy ones, and no dress can make them look old if it is right in line.
 Take the girl in the picture, for instance. She has suited her frCcll to the statuesque quality of her biuld and she has done it so charmingly that no question of age is connected with the idea. She is herself, and that is all that matters.
 Dresses with draping are especially good for girls of this type, and this season they may choose almost any sort of drape that suits their fancy. You see, when there is good deal of surface over which to spread the lines of the draping. then 1t shows so much more elegantly than it could on a shorter, more insignificant figure. Then when you are of this type of figure you can afford to wear the long waists with a good grace. You have enough of figure to let the proportions take care of themselves. You do not have to pretend long lines. You have them and you can let them do their prettiest for your good dressing.
 Long coats are good for this sort of figure, for their windings and drapings find a happy means of eX pressing themselves. Or If they are long coats that flare, they have so much sweep of line that they become lWIct as Sfdttlul they die OH any more inconsequential type of girl.
 The statuesque girl will always want tG have her hats a trifle larger than the average, for she carries off that line so superlatively well. They need not necessarily be picture hats, but they can have larger proportions than most hats even if they aEe tightly fitting turbans. The draping can be puffed out more generously or the trimming can be put on in stun ming ways for purposes of carrying out her line and expressing her indi- vidutlity.
 Where a girl of this sort really shC WIS at her best is in evening clothes. dressed in rich brocades and handsome velvets. She can wear black stunningly and she can afford. if she wishes, to have all kinds of bead and embroidered ornaments without their giving the slightest inn pression of ginger bread You see, she has so much line and grace at her disposal that she runs no danger of breaking up the effect of the gem eral design.