Beauty During Maternity

CHAPTER X

BEAUTY DURING MATERNITY

THE outward and visible bodily condition
which precedes maternity is the last thing of
which a woman should feel ashamed. It is indeed
the sign of a glorious responsibility and should be
revered as such. At the same time, it cannot be
denied that an unavoidable distortion of the body
is one of the results of pregnancy, especially as it
approaches its term. But the mother who has been
thus blessed, need not, necessarily, "point with
pride" to her condition. True pride is modest and
does not try to make itself conspicuous.

TACT IN DRESS

That rotundity of the abdomen which cannot
well be avoided, may largely be tempered by training,
moderate exercise, bathing, riding, golf,
decreasing month by month. And what training will not do,
ready tactfulness in dress may go far to dissemble.
The Empire waist, hung on tapes, is never an
unsightly costume, and is one which, because of its
looser folds, is especially well calculated to moderate
undue distention of the body for the eye. Since
at this time no mother-to-be would be apt to wear
corsets, there would be no unnatural emphasis laid
on the upper bodily protuberances, and the normal
curves would only appear to be slightly accented.
As the hips increase, month by month, the
shoulders and bust may be artfully made to appear
wider and broader. All that is called for is a little
ingenuity on the part of the dressmaker. Then,
the poise of the body sustained by general good
health, even the most critical eye will see nothing
repulsive in the general appearance of the form.

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