The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-15
Sham Men and Men who Wear Corsets.

TNHE male corset-wearers are those
Il who take their coats to the up
town tailor, whose advertisement may
be found almost any morning in the
Ledger. This ingenious fellow has an
which he puts into coats
by which ones shoulders are made to
look as broad as prize-fghter's. With
one Of his inventions, and perfectly
constructed corset, the figure of man
becomes irresistible. 1t Is secret, that
that the shoulders of all our coats are
more or less padded, that frequently our
vests are ditto, so that with the excep-
ton of the hair on our heads, which is
usually our own, there is about the full
dressed man almost as much sham as
surrounds the fulldressed woman. But
our male-corset- will talk. They
hide their corsets, figuratlvely as well as
actually, and would deny the whole
thing if they were asked about 1t. A
daily newspaper reporter is the authori-
ty for saying that the tailor who makes
heavy shoulders out of slim ones keeps
quiet on the subject. Many attempts
have been made, but all in vain, to in
terview him. One must turn to Eng
land to discover how q man feels when
tightly laced. Here is a gentleman who
wears ladies' shoes because he thinks
them more comfortable, and goes for
LIT -, b.
lady attendants, as II find them much
more obliging than male assistants
usually are" He is a connoisseur in
corsets for gentlemen. Listen to him:
L strongly advise to have the corset
made to open up the back only as find
it is much more comfortable to wear and
lighter than when made to open in front
in the now common mode l can truly
affirm, from my own experience, that
moderately tight-lacing Gay 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 seden-
tary nature, and used to suffer much
from pains In my side and back and from
indigestion but about year and half
ago my sister persuaded me to try and
wear a corset and she altered one of her
own to suit me. i found it rather irk-
some for the first few days, but that feel
ing soon passed, and on my next visit
to London had corset properly made
to my own measurement. Since then 1
have had another one made, smaller in
the waist and wider at the chest, which
am now wearing. The pains have
quite left me and my health is generally
much better than 1t used to be. Besides
this, the feeling of being tolerably well
laced is very comfortable. From my
own observation and inquiries / find
the practice of corset-weariug by young
gentlemen is becoming much more
usual, but we don't make any display
of the fact.'
In France and Germany very many
more gentlemen affect cOrsets than in
England. Here at home it is impossi
BILE the custom will ever become what
our English friend calls "usual." W.
haven't the time for the intricacies o
the corset. Even the suspender is get
ting beyond the control of the American
man, and o fellow sufferer wrote no
long ago to newspaper in New York
asking 1t to request of suspender maker
to have pity on poor male humanity
and cease adding novel machinery Il
this necessary part of our attire. No
people who are frightened at SO simpl
a thing as a pair of suspenders will neve
undertake the management of corsets
hedged about, as they are rumored to be
with whalebones innumerable, string
by the yard and holes by the dozens.
has not been the purpose in this pape
to do more than mention--as has bee
done = about the whipping and th
spurs. These are themes at which th
pen that did not falter at corsets fc
gentlemen wisely stops.
gY~A little girl who was spending a fe
days with farmer uncle visiting I'll
barn-yard, and while looking at th
well-fed COWS, remarked: why, uncle
just see, all the COWS are chewing gun
amt they"
Given up by Doctors.
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