CHICAGO(UPI) - If dieting isn't your thing and you get breathless about halfway through a romp around the block, fashion designer Bonnie August has an alternative: create an illusion with clothing.

Just getting rid of your - blue jeans and wearing a pair of pants with a_ vertical pattern helps, she says.

That’s among 642 ways Ms. August describes and illustrates in “The Complete

Bonnie August Dressthin System” (Rawson, Wade $12.95).

“I wrote the book for everyone,” August said in an interview. “People who are terribly overweight, slightly overweight or not over- weight — people who have big bones and, even if they diet down, they won't look like the model on TV.

“Everybody can look much better in a bathing suit by using a few rules,” said August, director of women's designs for Danskin Inc., a New York City manufac- turer.

“One is to be sure the suit doesn’t have too much elastic to cut into your body and call attention to trouble spots. The other is to make sure your bottom is covered up.”

For women who are self- conscious about their weight problem, she suggests wearing a cover-up with the bathing suit — a matching skirt or shorts tied around the lower part of the body.

“If you can avoid un- covering a problem area, you're a step ahead.”

The biggest eyesore is underfashions, she said.

“First of all, people don't look at themselves in a full- length mirror from top to bottom and from all sides. If they did, they would notice white pants where you can see the pantyline crossing over thet rear end.

“You shouldn't have a honzontal line across. the rear end if you have a

problem there”

Pantes that cling cause bulges that draw attention to extra weight, she said.

She recommends = flesh- colored underwear under white outer clothing because it doesn't show through

She cncourages women to

critically cvaluate thea bodies “Don't concentrate 9 on

what you consider to be a bad puint have to evaluate your entire body to

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“If you have always harbored a hope or a hunch that, just as a cookbook could help you cook better, a dressing book could help you look better in the clothes you wear,. you're right.”

Her “recipes” combine the principles of proportion August learned in art school with some tricks she picked up from co-workers and

clients in the fashion business. She said ballerina

Rebecca Wright of the American Ballet theater showed her tricks dancers use to clongate their leg lines. August said she in- corporated these into her fashion designs . and her Dressthin system.

Women who believe they have a weight problem are in good company, she added.

“T've found peopie no matter how fat, beautiful or famous — even dancers — they all think something is wrong with their body.”

She said many famous people, including Elke Sommer and Nancy Reagan, use the Dressthin system to appear thinner.

“She really knows how to play up her best points,” she said of Sommer. “She's in wonderful shape. I wrote about her because people could learn a lesson from the way she carries herself. As far as ['m concerned, she doesn't have a problen.

“We really think (famous people) have no faults, but there are many working full time to get their wardrobe together. It just shows that everyone can improve the way they dress and look better.”

China warns

of sexual. revolution

PEKING (UPI) - China’s communist leaders warned the nation’s young people recently against the sexual revolution and told them the “sluice gates of passion” should be kept securely shut until marriage.

“It ts regrettable that some young people take a non- chalant attitude and treat their love as objects to be disposed of at will,” said an article in the official Peking Daily, printed in an effort to check a wave of sexual permissiveness among China’s young.

flippant youths — labelled “play fnends” -—— change lovers all the time, while others “lose control of their sluice gates of passion” soon after engagement, “prematurely overstepping the bounds of pre-marital relations.

“Some even use love as the pretext to dally with the opposite sex. These attitudes and behavior are extremely harmful to oneself, to others and to society,” said the newspaper, which quoted Soviet Revolutionary Viadimir Lenin in deriding sexual permissiveness.

C7 - Sunday News, July 12, 1981

AT WORK on the kind of scene he loves best is North Van_ artist Gordon Munro who opens his first major show at City Hall this. week. (See also Sunday Brunch, page A6.

Reiko Anderson, B.A.

with R & H Interiors

After three years at the New York School of Interior Design, Reiko Anderson comes highly recommended: a_ certified Interior Designer, fluent in Japanese, French and English, intimately familiar with the newest design trends from New York, and able to transform your home or office into a uniquely beautiful place. Call her for the special at- tention your home deserves.

China, with a population of nearly 1. billion, en- courages couples to delay marriage until both are in thetr late 20s or early 30s.

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