Tight-lacing

M.C writes — “I cannot comply with the request of A WIDOWER, who writes in your June number, and asks for my full address. I will give a sufficient reason. When I wrote that ‘lengthy letter’— too long for full insertion— I had commented, and now have completes, the winding-up of a business which my necessities in early life forced me into. It has served me well, for I gave to it thought, and threw into it all my energy, and now I retire to enjoy my otium, not because I am tired, but for the …

PERSEVERANCE writes- “I must plead guilty to a touch of self-conceit in my last, but it will be perhaps explained when I confess that, though born a gentlewoman, and restored to that position by …

Great care should be taken in the adapting the stays to the figure, and this will be best affected through a gradual process of tightening. When put on in the morning, they should be laced moderately …

In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I wish to ask if you would be kind enough to inform all those silly young ladies who are trying to kill themselves by tight-lacing, that if they were only to ride a pulling …

A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT says on the Tight-lacing— “Women breathe so much more by the enlargement of the upper part of the thorax, that moderate support, short of actual compressions, does no harm if …

ARTISTS writes— “I was very glad to see the announcement in your January number that the ‘Corset Book’ would be out soon after Christmas. I am sorry that it is not ready yet. I do hope that we shall …

PERSEVERANCE writes— “I had the good fortune recently to come across a work called The Corset and the Crinoline, which contains abundant extracts from an interesting correspondence which had appeared …

ANNIE protests against Tight-lacing: —“Having been much interested in your correspondence on the ‘Corset question,’ I cannot refrain from expressing my surprise that Tight-lacing should have found so …

A CORRESPONDENT writes— “Permit me to say a word in reply to AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN who wrote in your February ‘Conversazione.’ He commences by making an assertion that Tight-lacing by ladies is …

LADY MARIEL writes— “My DEAR ‘ENGLISHWOMAN,’ —My surprise at the letter of THGHT-LACER, in your January number, was only equalled by the disgust I felt on reading MIGNON’S remarks in the February …