Dear Sir,–The letter of “stay-lace” in your issue of May 5th was most interesting, as it showed that there are still mothers in this age who pause to consider the best methods of ensuring for their daughters the attractive figures that tight-lacing from an early age makes possible. Your comment on this letter “That it is extremely wicked and dangerous to imprison growing girls in order to gratify a taste for an absurd and unhealthy fashion,” seems uncalled for.
Your correspondence columns have carried numerous letters from devotees of tight-lacing who, to my mind, have proved that if figure-training by the judicious use of the corset is begun at an early age, the charm of a tiny waist can be achieved without ill-effects.
I have no doubt that the girls of whom “Staylace” writes will live to thank their mothers for the trouble they took in training their figures, when these figures are the cause of the envy and admiration of others who are striving to obtain the same results with strenuous but belated efforts causing both ill-health and acute discomfort.
Their mothers’ policy, too, of “high-heeling,” their daughters at an early age, so that later on they will be able to manage gracefully the highest of heels, is an excellent one. How many women one sees moving awkwardly on high heels who, if they had been trained in their youth with heels of gradually increasing height, would now be at home in the highest heeled shoes fashion might demand.
I hope that “Staylace” may be helped by the advice, in these columns of your delightful paper, of some of your correspondents who realize the importance of a tightly laced figure and the highest of dainty heels.
Yours truly,
R.T.