Not only is this improvement desperately authentic to the touch but to the eye, too. You know how blouses are cut on the bias so that they drape down and back from the points of your bosom . . . and how a bulky sweater drapes. Well...!

One bra I wear with sweaters and some blouses I have nipped the center out for more effect. It's a bit too much in a (say) satin, closely- tailored top but under most sweaters and blouses it's very comforting to see the flickering, changing lines of drape as your bosom moves with the rest of your body. And it does!

Frankly, and it's most rewarding, I now wear my bra's unsnapped in back... and I must try nipping off the back straps entirely. You get, really, what I like to call "total flow." That lovely feeling which those men's magazine writers call "pendulous" is very much yours and about time. Every movement . a yawn, a cigarette to your lips (and oh The Twist!) is reflected there like everywhere else. A girl- friend, who came by such aesthetic attributes in the more usual order of things, watched me do a bend from the waist when I was showing her how I'm exercising to get back to the size twelve I used to wear. She regarded the penduluming with a blank, amazed stare, then said, "Welcome to the club, Lil!!"

You can increase your control of movement, if the back is unhook- ed, by tying a ribbon between the straps, behind your neck. (Makes you feel more secure, too . . . shoulder straps have a slight tendency to slip off your shoulders.)

What I've also tried to try . . . and you should . . and you should. . . is exchanging your shoulder straps for elastic straps.

The most!

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FREUDIAN SLIP?

A not-so-young housewife was bragging to her husband about her slim figure. "I can still get into the same skirts that I had before we were married," she said.

Without glancing up from his newspaper, and without thinking, her spouse replied morosely, "I wish the hell I could."

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