This 1934 book is quite a relic– it’s hard to imagine anything like it being published today. Posture is apparently more important than good lighting as the photo above proves. Didn’t anyone notice the huge mushroom-like shadow rising up from the ground?
Chapters include: Streamline Build, Sitting Pretty, Get Your Weight Off Your Feet, Hiding Your Hips, Taking it Off the Chin, Pounds and Protuberances, Rest Your Bones, What Every Actress Knows and more.
The photos are great, but the illustrations aren’t bad either.
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Allee Willis
Stupendous!
The use of the word ‘carriage’ absolutely kills me, that they’re using it for body and how to keep it erect and trim.
The shadow in the first shot is FANTASTIC.
The last photo slays me. I always use the word ‘poundage’ (I didn’t even know it was a real word despite using it for at least 30 years) and love that it’s used here along with that nifty little graphic illustrating girth.
Mark Milligan
“Pounds and Protuberances” has got to be the title to something special unrelated to this book! Haha I love that!
Allee Willis
An excellent title for a show tune.
Douglas Wood
Very Cole Porter.
denny
Oh my god. “Guide” books are some of my favorite collectables.
“Strong and firm through the middle” I always say!
Douglas Wood
Ha ha. Better than “weak and saggy” any day!