Dear Sir,–As an old reader of your delightful paper, I wonder if you could spare me a little space in your correspondence columns? I have along with mamma, followed the correspondence on tight-lacing. With a view to keeping a slim figure, during the time that this has been fashionable. I have been wearing 18in. corsets … Continue reading Advice from Readers Wanted
Dear Sir,–The demand of your readers for a number on figure training by corsets is decidedly interesting, and should also be beneficial to many. After years of experience, I have proved that the wearing of a properly cut corset is a remarkable corrective of constipation, gives great comfort and marked benefit in cases of internal … Continue reading Benefits Bestowed by Corsets
Dear Sir,–I look forward to your jolly weekly every time, and your corset and high-heel correspondence is just fine, but I don’t believe much of it. You will wonder why? Well, extreme tight-lacing can’t be done in the haphazard way many readers pretend they do it; there is too much of the following sort of … Continue reading Tortures of Tight-Lacing
Dear Sir,–They say that what “the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.” But look at me! I blush to say that I have only just discovered your paper, and I grieve deeply for all the back numbers that I have missed! I don’t mind saying now, as I have become your staunchest supporter, … Continue reading The Fascination of “London Life”
Dear Sir,–In these corsetless days my letter may not meet with the approval of all “London Ligers,” but I hope you will be generous enough to publish it. “R. C. P.” delighted me with his admirable letter, and I thoroughly agree with his contention that tight-lacing is not injurious if systematic methods of figure training … Continue reading Tight-Laced and Healthy at Eighty
Dear Sir,–In my humble opinion, and as a lady’s maid of considerable experience, I very much doubt whether dressing a maid in short frocks, silk lingerie, etc., would solve the servant problem, as some of your correspondents have suggested. A girl dressed in this musical-comedy-maid style would be liable to develop an exaggerated idea of … Continue reading Modern Fashions and The Servant Problem
Dear Sir,–Although I am a male corset-wearer and am in the habit of reducing my waist by this means to three-fifths of my chest measurement I venture to express my doubts as to the veracity of your correspondents on the subject of the so-called “pope stem waist.” For instance, in your issue of August 18th, … Continue reading Is The “Pipe-Stem” Waist Possible?
Dear Sir,–I have been deeply interested in the correspondence which has been going on for some time in your interesting paper regarding tight-lacing and the wearing of high heels. As a student of anatomy and physiology and an ambulance man of many years’ standing, may I be allowed a little of your valuable space in … Continue reading Is Tight-Lacing Injurious?
Dear Sir,–I notice in your jolly paper that there has been considerable reference lately to “pipe waists,” and at one time I had almost made up my mind to train for one. It was some years ago now, before the war and I was sickened by an exhibition I saw at Marseilles at a second-rate … Continue reading Tight-Waist Monstrosities
Dear Sir,–The fashion page of a recent issue of “London Life “ contains a note from “P. R.,” who jokingly says that his fiancée is so fond of gloves that he fully expects her to wear them for bathing before long. ”P. R.” may be interested, and “Miss 1828” highly amused, to hear of my … Continue reading My First Bathe In 1890