Dear Sir,–Although some of your correspondents have written extolling corset wearing and tight-lacing, and have described their trials, it still remains to be stated that a corset cannot be really or truly tightened on to a figure until the wearer finds it impossible to uncorset herself without first undoing her corset laces. This presupposes an … Continue reading How to lace Corsets
Dear Sir,–My contention regarding the corset question is that suitability alone should decide the issue as to what pattern or style of corset should be worn, as well as weather there should be any tight-lacing or not. In my own case, I have allowed the above proposition to operate. I am tied in an office … Continue reading Laced at the Office
Dear Sir,–I have noticed that one of your readers suggested that I should give details in your correspondence columns regarding methods of figure training by tight lacing. While agreeing up to a point with your remarks concerning exercise and small waists, I have found that if the trunk muscles are exercised sufficiently to take the … Continue reading Instructions for Figure Training
Dear Sir,–As a reader of your paper, I have for a long time been interested in your correspondence pages, and I find that the majority of the letters deal with tight-lacing or high heels. A few years ago I was advised to visit a certain museum in Liverpool. There you find a warning against tight-lacing … Continue reading Warning to Tight-Lacers
Dear Sir,– Some three years ago I read a most interesting article in a magazine on the cult of the elongated or stove-pipe waist. I learned that, although the fashion did not catch on to any extent in England, it was very popular for some time on the Continent and in America. My aunt, with … Continue reading Cultivating the Stove-Pipe Waist
Dear Sir,–May I be allowed a little further space in your most interesting paper to add to my letter of a week or so ago regarding tight-lacing? I was much impressed with the letter “Elsie J.” in your issue of November 12th last (which I had not before me at the time I wrote my … Continue reading Scientific Corsetting
SHOULD MEN WEAR CORSETS? Dear Sir,–I shall be very much obliged if you would publish this in your correspondence columns, and also any opinions of fellow-readers on the subject. As a male corset-wearer for some years, I have just been told that it is an injurious habit, but I am very averse to discontinue wearing … Continue reading Should Men Wear Corsets?
Dear Sir,–The correspondence on tight-lacing is very interesting, but even when tight corsets were the rule, a 14in. waist was the exception. I was in a shop doing a good class corset trade during the period 1902-6 and I remember that the best selling sizes then were 21’s and 22’s. Very few young ladies would … Continue reading Fashions in Tight-Lacing
Dear Sir,–I think it was Shakespeare who wrote of the seven ages of man. One can divide woman in her devotion to her corsets into seven ages also, Age No. 1: Babyhood–when she makes her first acquaintance with her corsets in the form of a binder. Age No. 2: Early childhood–when a buttoned bodice is … Continue reading The Seven Ages of Corset Wearers
Dear Sir,–A great lover of tight lacing myself, I have noticed lately, with great pleasure, signs which announce an nearly return to the wasp-waist. This is proved by the fact that corset manufacturers refer to the new styles as “a return to the feminine curves,” also the tucked-in jumper, worn inside the skirt, is getting … Continue reading Return to the Feminine Curves