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 light fancy things called stays now sold in the shops are of such a flimsy make that to have oneself “well pulled in” by them at the waist is impossible without injuring the stay. Now, that small waist is so fashionable and the practice of wearing tight stays being proved by the testimony of so many of your correspondents to be harmless.