The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-07-08
LADIES COLUMN.
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE.
How Art Assists Mature n Prsssrv-
inG It's Symmetry.

an elderly lady to the reporter who
had called a. her corset manufac-
tory, in West Thirty street
to learn something OF her art. Il
doubt" she continued, "whether
anybody else than the doctors q. q
the corset makers-and perhaps |
might even leave out most OF the
dOetors-has any idea Of the extent
to which curvature of the spine pre-
walls. Well, if a woman has a back
bone that 3 very eccentric, and a
pair Of shoulders that seem to have
been borrowed from Unmatched
people, she cannot be expected to
advertise the unfortunate fact. She
comes to me and [ turn her out as
straight and beautifully moulded as
Diana. Where she has prOtuber-
ant points thR5 mar the general
symmetry Of her outlines, L repress
them as far rs possible; where she
has unsIghtly hOllOws [ pad them
out with elastic white horse-hair or
whale bone scrapings; her shout
ders L put IN proper shape with adj
/ Unstable braces; If she is too fat I
at least give symmetry to her excess
slvely liberal proportions, and if
/ she Is too lean round her out to
pleasing emboupoint. Mind, l do
not say that l can make a thorough
| ly bad figure a perfectly good one,
/ but [ do pretend to be able to i'm
/ prove all except those whom nature
has made perfect beyond all art
ana even to them I can render ser
/ vice by aiding the preservation Of
the beauty of their figures. There
are many young misses who get
/ round-sh Ouldered from habit in sit
ting at their studies mainly, and
have Invented 4 special corset TOR
| them to remedy that defect-One
which not only conceals the deform- [
ity but corrects it, giving them nat
urally square and erect carriage" |
is there any established system /
of rules for the shaping of corsets@'
Decidedly, but to make perfect
lifting corsets, the system has to
have as many variations as there
are Individual figures to lit. Whole
sale manufacturers make and i'm
DOrters bring from France thou
sands Of dozens Of corsets, some of
them very handsome to look at and
many OF them pretty, too. They
will fit more or less accurately, t1o,
and are most likely to DO so where
the woman is least IN need of prop
er corset to correct a natural or &C
CURED defOrmity. But there is as
much difference really between
those cOrsets and one made by an !
artist-as claim to be
to fit the particular person for
whom it is designed, as there is L
between u slop-shop assortment Of :
'eady-made clothing and the we'll
lifting suit of clothes made to accu-
ate measure for a particular custo- L
ner by a good tailor. WHY. h
'tten have to fit ladies who are so Il
rocked that | have TO cut out pa
Der patterns on their backs and
york them up Co ideal lines of beau 4
J, as you may say. Now, what =
se TO them IN the world would be 4
orset made to fit the female world "a
] OrdinaryP' a
Many physicians say that cor
cts produce defOrmities. i
Improperly fitting ones, or those aa
7Orn too tight by foolish women,
o but 1 will not make a corset to
onstrIct the chest and compress
be lungs, or to pinch the waist to
purely artificial form That is,
rom al artificial point of view, as
reaG an error as it is from a physi- u
logical one Ny husband was a Vi Vi
MUSICIAN. have studied anato- pc
~, and I have forty years of expe- u
fence in cOrset-making, 80 1 do not m
lake such Mistakes
'trOm what you say, one might :
aadily imagine that deformity is J.
lther the rule than the exception =
InOng American women .
Then one would imagine q great
When 1 first went into
ssiness for myself thirty five years =
90, American women were, as
eneral thing, lean, angular and
ably shaped. But since then I
ave been able to note in them =
TOnderful Improvement, until now
believe they have finer figures, as a
ule, than the women of England or [
rance. Don't imagine that I am l.
laiming the credit of that improve
lent for my corsets. Nature has
one it. There has been u perfect r
ng of the physical development of 7
he race, IN women at least, though
fear it has not been so apparent
n the men We have fewer large,
me looking men now than we used 4
o have, I think, but our American II
women are the finest in the world, st
n graceful elegance of form"
Fat women are conspicuous
.mong your customers, are they
IotP' -
yes, but 1 have made them an :
special study, and they are no vi
rOuble to me. No matter how da
eshy a lady may be I can make
er up TO look trim and shapely. 1t =
; easier to get a gratifying result :
rom shaping a figure that is ample
han from one that is meag-e. 4
Horse hair pads, sometimes three Z
aches thick, viii bring the latter a
W. kAAE AA-Alsss 0A1 kAlClu2 buGlu
roperly and so that they will
Say IN place Is harder than re -
training an exuberance OF adipose =
ISSUE" y
"Have you any especial style of '
0rset fOr.fat wumenY' ~
Yes, and for lat men, too. II HI
al it the military corset. It is a
orset, baudage and brace com =
rned, very long, so as to come
own over the hips, and is very diff I
cult To ht properly, so that few =
arsOns can make it.
"Hour passing reference to fat
en- was, OF course, merely a Jest"
Not at all. I make a great
ANY gentlemen eorsets. Some
ear them because they wish to
em less corpulent; others because
ley want their support, and not
", who DO not really need them. NA