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pointers that can get you in trouble. They're the ones you hear about most often, and they all mean well, but followed literally, and in isolation, they can certainly play hell with your otherwise nice figger.
The first thing you are told to do is, "Hold up your head." It seems the tendency of most of us is to let the head droop forward like a tired dahlia. And when you decide to look alive — up goes the chin, back goes the head, jam go the top vertabrae— and you get a stiff neck, possibly a headache. The chin-up girl is usually the one who thinks book balancing is a good posture exercise, too. It's worth less than nothing — unless you know what you're up to. It's so easy to thrust the head forward, all out of hne, and walk for blocks with The History of Rome Han\s perfectly balanced.
Then they tell you, "Throw back your shoulders." It's a good command. But what usually happens is that you put up a good front, extend the chest, and go wagging your tail behind you. You have a bad list. And the mere throwing back of the shoulders is no cure for roundness The chest goes out, the shoulders stay round. Or you go to the other extreme and pinch your blades together till it hurts.
The third popular pointer is, "Tuck your hips under." That's what the slick chicks used to do when slick chicks were flappers. That was the debutante slouch — the hips swung under and thrust forward, the knees too much bent, and the top part of the body getting there last.
Then they say, "Point your toes." Too many women think this means lead vAth the toe and walk like a ballerina in the first part of "Swan Lake." That's what they look like, too, sans white feathers and sequins, and it's pretty silly. Touching the toes first gives you a mincing affected gait. And the man in your life is likely to give you the gate.
Last of those posture guides is, "Walk on a straight line." Try it and see. Unless you know what you're doing, unless all the rest of your body is perfectly lined up, you'll be walking pigeon toed, knocking your knees, or swinging around yourself with a rolling, intricate movement that reminds me of a really splendid Holstein my father once owned.
It's not a very pretty picture, this result of following the five point plan. And maybe you're screaming, "But what do I do, if I don't hold up my head, throw back my shoulders, etc., etc., etc.?" The answer is — adduct, dearie, adduct! You have adductor-muscles between your shoulder blades, in your lower back, in your buttocks, and immediately below the buttocks in the back thigh. Use 'em! Tune them up! Pull yourself together! Pull those adductors together all the way up and down your back — and they'll straighten your shoulders, tuck your hips under just enough, bring your knees together and correctly turned out, and keep your pelvis straight.
After long experience with postures— other people's and my own — I've decided the five important posture points lie in the center of