Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-03-11

OkNIi1N1N WHO PINCH THEIR THICK WAISTS
AND PAP THEIR THIN SHOULDERS
or IA 1851 ana 1885,, while many Americans were
$1,000 IA discussion down on the Potomac,
England They were fought In the newsnsners
anQ nave not, Il Is feared been sattsfacfpriiy
ogdee ~ 70 TINS day Let them be classed in the
oiueI OF tneif Importance as shown nv tho
num0er ana length OF the printed articles
Snoula young ladies over thirteen wears or age
Sen m,pec M al nome and in school? should
n0rSeoack wear spars9 II is to be presumed
that the young lady whipping. the male CORSET
before for while nothing ss ss Sd AZ s oney , did
now ii is only fair to conclude the agitation
neither increased nor decreased their practice
Like the sunday problem and the servant an
noyanee, these are matters which one could
talk about until doomsday without results In
this country few men wear corSets, and they
and equally celebrated as a beau. always had
on corset. The male corset-wearers are
those who take their coats to the uptown tai
S whose =, may Be- found
NOUS fellow has an arrangement which he puts
into coats by which ones Shoulders are made to
look as broad as prze-f1ghter's With one OF
his inventions, and perfectly constructed cor
set. the figure Of man becomes irresistible. IL
Is secret, that the ladies know as well as our
selves, that the shoulders OF all our coats are
are ditto, so that with the exception OF the hair
on our heads, which is usually our own, there is
about the full-dressed man almost as niue
sham as surrounds the full dressed woman. Bat
our male cOrSet-wearerS will not talk They
moe their corsets f1g'tratiyely as well as actu-
aty, and would deny the whole thing II they
were asked about it. daily newspaper reporter
is the authority for saying that the tailor who
makes heavy shoulders out OF slim ones keeps
quiet on the subject. Many attempts have been
must turn to England to discover how a man
feels when tightly laced. Here Is a gentleman
VINO wears ladies' shoes because he thinks them
store where there are lady attendants, as al
find them much more obliging than male assist
ants usually are" He is connoisseur In cor
sets Tor gentlemen. Listen to him:
81 strongly advise to have the corset made to
open up the back only, as / find IL Is much more
comfortable to wear and lighter than when
made to open in front, in the now common
ence. that moderately tight-lacing (say three to
four inches less waist measure than the natural
size Is not only not preJudictai, but, on the
occupation is mostly OF sedentary nature, and
used to suffer much from pains In my side and
BACK, ana from indigestion; but about a year
and wear corset, and she altered one of her
own to suit me. found 1t rather irEsome for
ana On y n cas S ont that feeling soon
properly made to my own measurement. Since
them have had another one made, smaller IN
now wearing. The pains have quite left me.
and my health is generally much better than It
uSea 70 DC. Besides this, the feeling of being
to!erably well laced is very comfortable From
my own observation and inquiries I find the
practice OF corset-wearing by young gentlemen
rs becoming much more usual, but we don't
make any display OF the fact"
In France and Germany very many more gen.
tfemen anect corsets thanfn England Here at
home 1t is impossible the custom will ever be-
come what our English friend calls ssusual.n
We haven't the time for the intricacies OF the
corset. Even the suspender Is getting beyond
the control or the American man, and fellow
sufferer wrote not long ago TO a newspaper in
New York, asking it to request OF s1spender
makers TO have pity on poor male humanity
and cease adding novel machinery to this peceS-
sary part OF our attire. No; people who are
frightened at so simple thing as pair OF sIls-
peHders will never undertake the manapement
of corsets, hedged about, as they are r1mored
10 be, with Whaleb0neS innumerable strings by
the yard and holes by the dozens It has not
been the purpose In this paper to DO more than
mentlon-as has been dOne-about the whipping
ana the spurs. These are themes at which the
wisely stopS.-[ Forney's Progress