Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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..Adductors I H ave Met By DOROTHEA SPAETH A dancer's answers on how to muscle in on body beauty. MORE women than you may think were born with the form divine — or a reasonable facsimile. Take a look in your full length mirror. What gives with that body of yours? I mean its general contours. If what's wrong with you is too many chocolate-marshmallow sundaes or glands or Junior on the way, that's none of my business. But granted your . legs, arms, tummy, bozoom, etc., all add up to more or less the right proportions, per your height, there is a more or less sporting chance that you have — or can have — the form more or less divine. It all depends on your adductors. 'Now an adductor is not something that climbs up a ladder and snatches your child to hold for ransom. An adductor happens to be a muscle. Don't ask me how it happened. It just did. And up and down your back are several of these muscles, located at strategic points. They're the ones that keep you in shape. What shape is up to the way you use them. You see, your body is divided into two vertical halves. Right half and left half. The way some women get around, you'd think Right Half wasn't on speaking terms with Left Half, or never the twain had met. That's because the adductors aren't being used for their designed purpose. And that is — to hold together the two vertical halves of your body, and keep it a compact, neat little bundle of firm toned-up muscles. A clam has adductors. That's how you can tell a live fresh clam from one that's dead or beginning to be. The adductors keep the clam shells pinched together tightly at the lips. And the adductors keep your two halves hanging together gracefully from the ears. If they don't, that may be the difference between you and someone who's vitally alive. You probably don't fancy being compared to a clam. Neither do I. But can I help it if we both have adductors? That I can't, but I can help those adductors. And judging from some of the adductors I have met, they need help. Adductors condition your posture. Don't let that word scare you away. Posture can be a boring exercise. It can mean standing up what you think is straight and feeling like a cross between an Egyptian mummy and a grain bag with arms and legs. It can also mean poise. A happier outlook. A lovelier look. And that's why you decide every now and then to be conscientious and take the advice of popular posture pointers. And that's where you, like the best laid plans of mice and men, may gang aft agley. And I do mean go awry! There are five of these