Dear Mr. Editor,I’m a modern girl, and would like to have my own views heard on the corset question. What really gets me going is not what has been published in your paper on lacing, I’ve sometimes thought the writers must be leg pulling; but a conversation I overheard recently. I was in a railway … Continue reading Modern girls’s view on corsets
Dear Editor, – As a little girl I was always tight-laced, since I can remember. Because I was such a tom-boy mother put me into stays very early to keep me from romping around with the boys. When I behaved very badly she would lace me at the tightest and when I ran around too … Continue reading Tight-Lacing tames a Tomboy
Dear Sir, -Like your correspondent “E. L.” I too am a typist and I also go in for tight fitting corsets. Until a year ago for the office I always wore straight up-and-down frocks which hid my trim little 17 inch waist. One day, however, my employer caught sight of me with my hand resting … Continue reading Girls, cultivate a waist
Dear Sir, -“Once a tight-lacer, always a tight-lacer” was the very true remark of a correspondent recently. “Just for fun” my friend persuaded me to allow her to tighten my corsets on evening. Her mother flattered my vanity (I was 28 at the time), by assuring me that with my curves, my figure was positively … Continue reading Once a tight-lacer always a tight-lacer
Dear Mr. Editor, -Seeing that your paper is so largely read by men and women interested in tight lacing, I cannot understand who you so frequently add little postscripts of your own on the evils of the practice. Surely you will need no telling that the War was won by the sons and daughters of … Continue reading Tight Lacer’s son who won the war
Dear Sir, – Many years ago when stays – not corsets – were worn, I was apprenticed to that trade. Perhaps the method of training may be of interest to your readers. My first appearance was in the forwoman’s room where I was measured and next day fitted with the first of many and smaller … Continue reading The training of a corset expert
Dear Sir. The correspondence columns of “L. L.” recall some incidents to my mind in connection with the fashions of the “90’s,” It was really wonderful, when one looks back, that the girl of that period was able to dance, walk. etc., etc. The girls of those days never ceased striving to obtain the wasp … Continue reading When squeezing was fashionable
Dear Sir, – I have noticed in “London Life” recently one or two letters about tight lacing servants. Do the writers of these letters seriously expect sensible readers of your little paper to believe what they write? As if any sensible modern girls who take a pride in their appearance would admit to be dressed … Continue reading Corsets have had their day
Dear Sir, – Very many thanks for the wonderful photograph of the wasp waisted South African young lady, which appeared in the splendid Autumn Album of “London Life.” I wonder how many of your readers, on looking at this photography noticed that the young lady was wearing enormously high heels. The shadow of these heels … Continue reading A wasp waist enthusiast
Dear Sir, – The letters in your up-to-date paper on smartly dressed maidservants prompt me to write about a friend of mine who has adopted this policy with great success. By ordering unusual high wages she was able to have her pick of fifty or sixty applicant, and finally choose a tall fair girl, whose … Continue reading How to solve the servant question