Dear Sir – One of your correspondents asks for information in respect of punishment corsets and I am tempted to write to you again, having had some experience in these matters.In the early years of the nineteenth century great efforts were made with regards to the reduction of growing girls’ waists and to the grace … Continue reading Corsetting in the bad old days
Dear Sir, – The plain facts regarding corset “tortures” were sheer inventions. I am a product of the last corseting period and can speak from experience. I had my first real corsets at ten years of age and was thereafter carefully trained.I was put into night corsets at fifteen and can truthfully say that from … Continue reading Corset tortures sheer invention
Dear Sir, – I don’t think there is any doubt whatever that the corset, as an article of, feminine wear, is returning to favor or that a certain amount of waist pinching is now going on. Quite young girls are taking seriously to the corset and are enquiring for a more waisted design, while many … Continue reading The return of the Corset
Dear Mr. Editor,Part 15 of Everywoman’s Encyclopaedia,” published before the war, has some interesting things to say about Corsets and Tight Lacing, amongst which are the following:-“The normal girl is not ready for the corsetiere before she is fifteen, and then, no matter how large and clumsy her waist, it can be gradually but surely … Continue reading Corsets, instruments of torture
Dear Mr. Editor,I’m a modern girl, and would like to have my own views heard on the corset question. What really gets me going is not what has been published in your paper on lacing, I’ve sometimes thought the writers must be leg pulling; but a conversation I overheard recently. I was in a railway … Continue reading Modern girls’s view on corsets
Dear Editor, – As a little girl I was always tight-laced, since I can remember. Because I was such a tom-boy mother put me into stays very early to keep me from romping around with the boys. When I behaved very badly she would lace me at the tightest and when I ran around too … Continue reading Tight-Lacing tames a Tomboy
Dear Sir, -Like your correspondent “E. L.” I too am a typist and I also go in for tight fitting corsets. Until a year ago for the office I always wore straight up-and-down frocks which hid my trim little 17 inch waist. One day, however, my employer caught sight of me with my hand resting … Continue reading Girls, cultivate a waist
Dear Sir, -“Once a tight-lacer, always a tight-lacer” was the very true remark of a correspondent recently. “Just for fun” my friend persuaded me to allow her to tighten my corsets on evening. Her mother flattered my vanity (I was 28 at the time), by assuring me that with my curves, my figure was positively … Continue reading Once a tight-lacer always a tight-lacer
Dear Mr. Editor, -Seeing that your paper is so largely read by men and women interested in tight lacing, I cannot understand who you so frequently add little postscripts of your own on the evils of the practice. Surely you will need no telling that the War was won by the sons and daughters of … Continue reading Tight Lacer’s son who won the war
Dear Sir, – Many years ago when stays – not corsets – were worn, I was apprenticed to that trade. Perhaps the method of training may be of interest to your readers. My first appearance was in the forwoman’s room where I was measured and next day fitted with the first of many and smaller … Continue reading The training of a corset expert