The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-08
BY ELIZABETH CLARK

What shall I wear?" What
shall we do?" Everyday feminine
hugbears, and now that you are a
prospective mama, they may get
you if you don't watch out.
But, being a modern young per-
son, you have made up your mino
not to fall back on your future
offspring as an excuse for slumping
into a figure of dowdiness.
Your delicate condition" will not
keep you shut up indoors, tied to
Vial Of smelling salts.
You don't expect to remain the
Slender envy Of your friends, but
ankly to impers0nate a Toby jug
or a tea cosey, you know to be just
as silly
Smart, If Not Syelte
With the stores and the styles
in cahoots to bolster up your waist
line, you look smart If not svelte
even as you pull up to the hospitaI
doors.
You can have as much fun plan
ming a maternity" wardrobe as you
did in choosing a trosseau-more,
when you think that as every one
expected you to look gorgeous in
your honeymoon clothes, now they
will take it for granted that you are
not up to being fashion plate.
You do not have to stick to the
obvious surplice model that
screamed its purpose long before the
first tape had to be let out.
Nor do you have to depend upon
a cloud of floating draperies, grace
full but hardly chic, to keep your
secret.
Tricks in Style
If dropped shoulders, fullness
above the waist, jackets, cowl neck
lines, profuse lingerie touches in
jabots and frills, are fashions
darlings on the SWEETEST Of debu-
tante frocks, they also are tricks
to make any mama to-be feel
pretty cocky that she had sense
enough to pick a time of their
wearing to start her family. Front
skirt flares, long skirts and wrap
arounds are other good points.
Your clothes will be a source of
as much concern to your fussy
friends as they are to you. If you
are wearing high heels-even the
modest military Cuban variety sug-
geSted by your doctor and heeled
with understanding less than
high-laced shoes of the gay nine
ties will satisfy your friends, even
though they do make your legs
ache.
They'll Warn You
If golf has accustomed your feet
to the --LATEST of heels, another sect
will belabor you with threats of
fallen arches.
Are you wearing a corset? If you
are, they will tell you, you should
take 1t off at once. No matter that
it is a special corset fitted to your
measure, it is bound to do damage
to Junior.
If you are not, you should rush
out and buy one, Or you will ruin
your figger, they say.
Let your physician score the
taboos. He will warn against such
minor details as round carriers, any,
thing that is tight about the waist,
Corselettes that pull down instead
of giving support, boyishform bras
Sieres, French heels and shoes that
pinch.
He may suggest the homely union
suit but why shy off at that! 1t
will be more comfortable than chif-
fon and lace, and comfort is one
thing at which you will not turn
up your nose.
Going Places, Doing Things
When it comes to going places
and doing things, and what places
and things, that is up to the pair of
you-your physician and yourself.
Only a ninny would order her
horse for a canter in the park or
attempt a fast set of tennis. And
no one but nihny would force
herself to finish eighteen holes of
golf just because a husky sister who
knows all about having a baby was
not faxed at twice that number.
Golf and swimming and, above
all, walking are your meat and YOU
can take them in as large doses as
you can stand without going home
dead to the world.
In fact, you will not be doing your
bit if you NOPE in the house If
the world beaten whom YOU are
planning for is to have a square
deal, you will not cheat him out of
air and exercise before ever you see
him.
But you will not go racing him
over bumpy roads on all-day drives
and you Will not half kill yourself
trying to keep up with the Anna
IONS when you would much rather
go home early and take a nap.