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your skirt the smart straight line look. Fig. (3) Choose a gored skirt if you are inclined to be stout Of course, the modern conception of a gored skirt isn’t a sixteen or eighteen-piece affair. Six gores are permissible, yes stylish. This gives a panel front and back and a seam on the sides. (See Fig. 3.) Such a skirt makes an admirable accompaniment to the over-blouse. It is hardly necessary to add that for the stout woman the over-blouse is to be preferred to the tuck in variety of waist.

Circular skirts are for the woman with small hips, whether she is the thin woman with small hips, or the type of stout woman who is well developed through the shoulder and upper part

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