Unruffled

On the feminine topics of ruffles and steatopygia, a slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime."

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