Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-10-26
FOR ELESAY LADIES.
A Dress-NIaker Tells What They Should
Wear and What Is to BE Avoided.

| A Dress-Maker Tells What They Should
Wear and What Is to BE Avoided.
Fleshy women are dress-makers' ter
rors. Nearly all fashions are devised
with slender women in view, and when
applied to fat women, without due dis
elimination, make OF them nightmares.
One can drape thin woman to give
her the curves and dimpled lines of n
developed form. But rare is the woman
who can overcome the ponderosity of
flesh. With broad-busked corsets and
siXteen-bOned waists, the same bodice
which the slender woman wear, strained
till it fits like eelskin, is buttoned over
the fat woman and makes her look fat
ter than she is. Not one woman Of two
hundred pounds in four dozen know
how to bring out the dignity which is
possible to such figure. A fat woman
in the usual plain, long habit bodice is
always less well clothed than she ought
to be; sometimes, If she draws her cor
set lacing too tight, an object which in
plain English is disgusting.
Half the troubles of flesh arise from
treating it in way Numerically oppo-
site to the right one. The flcshy woman
when she observes that her waist meas
ure is growing larger, sets her foot
down commonly as resolutely as she
may against such an undesirable pro-
gression. She buys the stiffest stays,
warranted "unbreakable, in the mar
ket, and when the modiste fits her, two
attendants lay their hands on the rebel
lious flesh, and push and squeeze it to-
gcthor, until it makes great protuber-
ances above and below, and groaning,
squeaking, machine-confined area be-
tween.
Now the fat woman makes n mistake
when she discloses to anon-sympathetic
world just how stout she has become.
That is little matter which is her own
secret, and one which she should guard
seduously. The woman of perfect form
is the only one who can afford, for
aesthetic reasons, to display her figure
in close fitting polonaise or basque.
The woman whose figure is too full
should treat it exactly as does she whose
slcndcrness is too fragile disguise it
with long, rather loose, lines.
To come to details, the stout woman
should shun tho short waist or Joseph
inc bodice as she would the plague.
She should never yield to the seduc-
tions of a belt or girdle. She should
never wear bask or any garment
which makes break at the waist all
the way round. The gown which gives
her repose, dignity and almost grace is
the gown which gives you her figure at
one sweep, adding to her apparent
height and taking the eye off her girth,
making the proportions better. She
wants the longest lines she can get and
the most graceful curves. She should
avoid any thing which breaks up her
attire into parts, leading the eye to
study her in detail. She wants to be
an imposing whole with a presence MS
attractive in its way MS that OF the
smaller woman. Tho tea-gown is the
first gown in years which showed her
her opportunity. The tea-gown itself
does not suit her, but it is very gen.
orally built on the model OF loose
fronted princess robe, and some modi-
llcation of the princess gown is the
stout woman's fit attire,-DenUer Re
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