PICCADILLY says —“MIGNON’S call to the admirers of that charming fashion of small waist to ’rally round the banner that has been unfurled,” induces me to add my testimony to the fact that a clumsy figure is to the great majority of gentlemen absolutely repulsive. I am myself a member of what are called the … Continue reading Piccadilly
TIGHT-LACING. —M.C. writes an interesting but very lengthy letter on Corsets. We can only find space for an extract. — “I have never known any injury to health arising from the use of Corsets, whether tight or otherwise, if the figure be properly fitted. The body has always required some support since the time when … Continue reading Tight-Lacing
E. E. writes—“Reading so much about Tight-Lacing in the columns of your ’Conversation,’ I take the liberty of writing to give you my opinion upon the subject, and this I have been induced to do through reading to letters, both from gentlemen, one styling himself T.F., and the other AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. To begin with, … Continue reading E. E.
ELLEN says—“Have the correspondents on Tight-Lacing remembered that beauty claims to consist in the generally correct proportions of the entire figure ratchet than in any individual part of it? It is not whether the waist comes within such and such a limit, but what it is relatively to the height and other portions of the … Continue reading ELLEN
ELLEN K. writes—“I do not think much more could be said on the Corset question that has been said already. The controversy has evidently been argued out on one side on theoretical principles, and on the other by bringing forward the results of personal experience. It is not difficult to decide which will carry most … Continue reading ELLEN K.
On the question of the beauty of small waist, ANOTHER ARTIST says—“I do not for a moment deny the truth of your artist correspondent’s assertions, for I consider, as everyone must, that that the proportions of the human body are the most beautiful in creation (where all is beautiful and correct); but the grand … Continue reading Another Artist
AN ENGLISH GENLTMAN says—“Inasmuch as the ladies of my family subscribe to the ENGLISH WOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE, I sometime take it off the table and glance through its contents. Thus it has arisen that I have read, and been much amused with, the correspondence in its column on the subject of Tight-Lacing. May I be … Continue reading An English Gentleman
TIGHT-LACING. MIGNON says—“DEAR MRS. ENGLISHWOMAN, —I beg—I pray—that you will not close your delightful “Conversazione to the Tight-Lacing question: it is an aborting one; hundreds, thousands of your young lady readers are deeply interested in this matter, and the subscribers to your excellent Magazine are increasing daily, to my own knowledge, by reason of this … Continue reading Mignon
A CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT, which we print below, seems to be another proof of the extraordinary interest occasioned by the Laing Controversy. It appeared in the Scotsman of January 9th. “SOPHIE.—The Correspondence in the ENGLISH WOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE is Re-opened this Month. Is the Waistband ‘beautifully less?’” A reply to this was printed in the same … Continue reading A Curious Advertisement
JEZEBEL —a very ill-chosen name—says—“A correspondent in the October number of your Magazine states that her waist is only thirteen inches round, but she does not state her height. My waist is only twelve inches round; but then, although I am eighteen years old, I am only four feet five inches in height, so that … Continue reading Jezebel