STAYS – LAURA will be very much obliged to some of our correspondents who have the happiness of being possessed of small waists, or whose practice it may be to have themselves “tightly laced in very tight-fitting stays”, if they will kindly inform her where such stays as they use are to be obtained. The … Continue reading Laura and Stays
NORA says – “I venture to trouble you with a few particulars on the subject of ‘tight-lacing’, having seen a letter in your March number inviting correspondence on the matter. I was placed at the age of fifteen at a fashionable school in London, and there it was the custom for the waists of the … Continue reading Tight-Lacing at a Fashionable School
H.W., in commenting on the remarks of STAYLACE, observes – “STAYLACE says she admires a small and elegant waist and wishes to achieve one. Allow me to ask if she has tried one of the small waistbands that draw together with cords in front? They are quite sufficient for any woman with a slight … Continue reading Tight-Lacing Will be Unnecessary
FEMALE PROPORTIONS. – TIP wishes to tell the OLD WOMAN that she may find what she wants in Ruskin’s works or those of TIP’S uncle, the late President of the Royal Academy; but she has heard (though unable to vouch for the truth of it) that the correct proportions of the female human frame are … Continue reading Female Proportions
TIGHT-LACING. – A correspondent, adopting the signature STAYLACE, says – “In reply to the invitation from the lady from Edinburg to a discussion on the popular system, amongst our sex of compression of the waist, when requisite to attain elegance of figure, I beg to say that I am inclined, from the tone of her … Continue reading Staylace Writes About Tight-Lacing
A lady, dating from Edinburgh, and who encloses us her card, writes as follows, begging us to invite correspondence on the important subject: – “I have been abroad for the last four years, during which I left my daughter at a large and fashionable boarding school near London; I sent for her home directly I … Continue reading A Lady From Edinburgh and her Daughter