Dear Sir, – “Tight Lacers” views aroused the ire of so many readers that I am sure you will, with your well-known courtesy, allow me to say a word in her favour. I fully agree with “Tight Lacer” and “Primrose Long” that a girl who is gradually laced in from an early age, experiences little difficulty in attaining a very small waist. I should not be the happy wife and mother I am today had my mother’s policy of training my figure been a wrong one.
I was taught that a perfectly corseted figure, high heels, and smart gloves were absolutely essential to the dainty girl. From the age of ten to fifteen I attended a private school and during that period I was never absent through illness, although constantly wearing quite tight corsets.
I was naturally very slim and when I left school I had a fifteen-inch waist attained in the easiest manner and without lacing in at night time.
Henceforth I was dressed in suitable adult styles and most strictly tight-laced, with special reducing stays for sleeping. Again at eighteen years of age, beyond a delicate appetite and some breathlessness, I was quite happy with a thirteen-inch waist, which was reduced to twelve inches for special occasions,
I have been married for seventeen years and have two children, a daughter of sixteen and a son of fourteen. Fashions have changed, and my daughter is dressed as other modern girls but I insist on her being well-gloved, and high-heeled to four inches. I myself still retain my slim figure, and my sixteen-inch waist and five-inch heels constantly delight my husband. Once a week we have a delightful little musical evening when I wear six-inch heels and fourteen-inch corsets.
I am not alone in my love of the corset, as two young friends of mine, sisters aged nineteen and twenty, are strictest tight lacers. My best wishes for the further success of your charming journal.
Yours truly,
“HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.”