‘I suppose Taki will have to be married off before long, too,’ the Master, sitting at his side, answered.
‘So you’ve heard, then? It seems The Imperial Rule Assistance Association are about to announce the standard for Assistance Style Beauties. Young people’s idea of beauty is the fashionable slim and pale willowy figure, but this doesn’t fit in with national policy. I suppose you’re the same, are you, Itakura? You like the willowy type, do you?’
The company president had evidently made up his mind, so Mr. Itakura merely said with distaste, ‘Not at all.’
‘The powers that be have apparently decreed that wide hipped women ideal for childbirth are the true beauties. The Association is leading the way in making this the fashion. The willowy type of beauty like Mistress Hirai is in the past
