Girdles

At a convention of the publicity-wise California Models' Guild, a dark-haired, shapely movie bit player named Leslie Brooks wriggled into an evening gown of gold lame with an extremely low backline just a few inches above indecency.

Explained the Guild: the new backline demonstrated beyond doubt that Miss Brooks was not wasting rubber on a girdle; every time she turned her back she showed her patriotism.

But perhaps the Guild asked U.S. women for too great a sacrifice. The health magazine Hygeia stated this month that, since the human body is "not designed to stand and walk upright," girdles are A-I-a to feminine health and posture. Said Hygeia:

When men grow "corporations" and women develop "middle-age spread," the spine simply is becoming tired of "supporting in an erect position the body that was intended to go on all fours," writes Marion Dixon.

"Neither exercise nor any other known remedy can restore the aging muscles of men or women to their original youthful tautness."

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