The Red Cloud chief., 1879-05-01
GENTLEMEN WHO LACE.
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Prom formers Frpxr.&
IL 1861 and is62. while mzny Arns--
cans were engaged in adiscussiou dosn
on the PoJon.c, there were seTc-Al So
nous questions agits.iag England. They
were fough, IL the newspapers, and
have not, il il feared. been satisfactorily
settled 20 this day. Let hen &c elasset
Ia the order Of their importance, IS
shown BY the plumber and length of the
printed articles. First, shcald young
isdie. over IS years %. age be whipped
Al home and IN SCHOOL, Second, should
gentlemen wear corse.s2 Third. should
ladies' on horseback wcsr spurs? IL - To
be presumed tina. the young LADY whip
ping, the male corset, and the female
spur-wesring go SD as they did before,
for while nothing Is said sbDa, them
now. il is only fair 10 concllds The agi-
tation neither increased nor decreased
their practice. Like The Sandsy prot
lem and the servant annoyance, these
are matters which ons could talk ABOUT
until doomsiay without results. Ia this
country G fex men weAr cJTsess, and
they seem TO like them. Gpitschalk,
the pianist, and equally celebrated IS 3
beau, al ways had on q corset. The male
corset-wearers are those VINO take their
q 10 al uptown - lor, whose
advertisement MAJ b. found al
most any morning in the
Ledger. This ingenious fellow hiss AL
arrangement which he puts into coats,
by which ones shoulders are made To
look IS broad as q prize-tighter's. With
one OF his inventions, aud Z per:ecIy
constructed corset, the figure Of = man
becomes irresistible. /, is L secret tina:
the ladies know as well "a ourselves
that the shoulders of all our coats ART
more or less padded, th.; frequently
our vests are ditto, 50 that with The eN-
ception of the hair on our heads, which
Is usually u own, there * about the
full-dressed man almost as much sham
as surrounds the fuii-dressed woman
But Dur male corsct-weaIers will no,
talk. They hide their c~Crsets, tigura
lively as well rs actually, and would
deny the whole thing if they were asked
about it. A daily Newspaper reporter
is The authority for say ing that the tailor
who makes heavy shoulders out Of slim
ones keeps quiet on the subject. Many
attempts have been made, but all IL
vain, to interview him. One must turn
TO England 10 discover how q man feels
to be tightly laced. Here is a gentle
man who years ladies shoes because he
thinks them more comfortable, and
goes for his corsets 10 q store where
there are lady attendants, as al find
them much more obliging than male as
~sistants usually are" He is u connois-
seur in corsets for gentlemen. Listen
to him:
81 strongly advise to have the corset
made to open up the back only, as find
IL much more comfortable To wear and
lighter than when made 10 open in front,
in the now common mode. | can truly
affirm, from my W experience, that
moderately tight lacing-say three TO
four inches less waist measure than the
natural size is not only not ~prejudicial,
but, on the contrary, is very beneficial
to The health. My occupation Is mostly
of a ~sedentary nature, and used to sui
fer much from pains in my side and
OoShs Al HUN lutieSSStOh, ~ ppu
q year and a halfago my sister persuad-
cd me to Try and wear Il corset, and she
altered one OF her to suit me. i
found it rather irksome for the first few
days, but that feeling soon passed, and
on my next visit to London / had a cor
set properly made to my own measure
ment. Since then | have had another
one made smaller in the waist and wider
at the chest, which l am now wearing.
The pains have quite left me, and my
health is generally much better than it
used to be. ; Besides this, the feeling of
being tolerably well laced, is very com
Portable. From nay observation
ard inquiries, l find the practice of cor
~set-wearing by young gentlemen is be-
coming much more usual, but We don't
make any display OF the fact"
In France and Germany very many
more gentlemen affec: corsets than in
England. Here at home it is impossi-
BILE the custom will eve become what
our English friends call "usual." We
haven't the time for the ~intricacies of
the corset. Even the s%uspender is get
ting beyond the control of the American
man, and a fellow-suiferer wrote 10 the
New York Graphic not long ago asking
it to request suspender-makers to have
pity on poor male humanity and cease
adding novel machinery To this necessa-
~ part of ur attire. No. A people
who are frightened ~ SO simple Il thing
as q pair of ~suspenders viii never I'M
dertake the management of corsets,
hedged about, as they are rumored to
be, with whalebones innumerable,
strings by the yard and holes by the
dozen. 1t has not been the purpose, in
this paper, to do more than mention
as has been done about the whipping
and the spurs. These are themes at
which the pen, that did not falter at cor
sets for gentlemen, wisely stops.