Former Lady’s Maid

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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 marriage, I was once a lady’s-maid. Hence my experience. My first mistress (the smallness of whose figure — 15inches — I … Continue reading Former Lady’s Maid

A Gradual Process

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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 tight, so that the firmness of the pressure may just be felt, and then be allowed to remain an … Continue reading A Gradual Process

Silly Young Ladies

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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 horse for an hour every day, or row a boat for the same time, they would find … Continue reading Silly Young Ladies

A Medical Correspondent

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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 applied about the lower part of the female thorax. Of course if circulation is hindered or organs unduly compressed anywhere, harm is … Continue reading A Medical Correspondent

Artists

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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 not be kept waiting for it much longer. I can assure you that I and many … Continue reading Artists

Perseverance

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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 in your columns on the merits and demerits of Tight-lacing. This discussion was new to me, and I confess I read with the greatest pleasure … Continue reading Perseverance

Annie

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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 many advocates. Many of your correspondents seem to exult in the possession of waists of so little girth, that it seems to me incredible. I am usually … Continue reading Annie

A Correspondent

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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 ‘supreme folly,’ practiced to please each other. Now this is just the way all those who have written against this practice have done. … Continue reading A Correspondent

Lady Mariel

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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 number. Surely if those gentlemen she mentions really ‘cannot survive the sight of a perfectly-formed lady, the world is well rid of them. … Continue reading Lady Mariel