The Classic Figure

March, 1959

The Classic FigureFeminine beauty has its fads and fashions, every bit as much as the raiment that clothes that beauty, and the ladies seem to possess the Procrustean faculty of altering their very bodies according to the dictates of style.Today, the totalitarian rulers of haute couture have set up as the ideal of feminine beauty a straight line of almost geometric severity, and the too, too solid flesh that was once greatly admired has melted, thawed and resolved itself into a dew.In refreshing...