, 1888-12-27
The Reason Why Some Women
Have Bad Forms.
Stays should Be Maderso as to
s Fit the Figure.
ss~s Good Advice From Madsnoisc'ie
Chic Thss tAs 0entlsr Soc ~
tfrt fif@ Should Hollew.

generally 9roAning over their tendency tC
grow st0ut. Somebody has complained
that ell Of them, after q certain age, looh
fat. We sre well fed and well cared tor
~ women who live ia this land OF the free
and brave, and we like it, but how We dc
loathe COO much 9esh. ag4a
MAN 'sele believes that the reason for
this increase OF size IL az much owing 70
lack of care about 0ne's stays a. TO the
sweets We eat. stays or corsets ought as
much be fitted 10 the figure which wears
them - the bOdies which cover them.
Who ever got into ready-made waist
which dad not require some alterations, yet
Thousands and thousands of women wear
ready.made stays and do not give the mat
ter . thought.
Nam selle knows women with ieures as
utterly unlike ~ q beanpole and = barrel
who both wear twenty.three inch, long
WASTED G. p. or p. d. corset. What sense
10 there in thatp
Madame" said Mr.. Redfern, I'VE
make the RgRah what 1t ought to be.
eyes," said Madame. ''but your idea
and mine Of what the figure ought to be
.esm 70 be quite at variance, and wear
the dress!' s
Now. the stays ought to tend to this end |:
They should and In making the figure what
IL ought TO be, and how can the article
which Is cut out by machiuerv by the hum
dreds ft everybodyP The answer 10 this
10 sort Of cross between an Irish bull
aud sigh. They don't at everybody. and
rarely that particular body who buys them.
bat custom-made corsets are 20 high, and
how many women are there who can afford
70 pay S5, o., $40, or SIS for single pair
Of corsets? And that Ia what Is asked for
such as are made to order. It's awful.
Every woman knows it, but it's
true. Dressmakers ought TO make the
stays for their customers, fitting them as
carefully as for q costly gown, and q good
not to cost more than %. IL would be
hardly possible to get them for less. Those
who cannot afford this should learn to
make their own, bnt every woman ought
10 wear . corset fitting closely to every
curve Of her figure. How can she tell but
that pattern No. for the corset she buys
was cut 10 Rt wooden fxurep Besides
care in this, further caution 10 needed in
another particular. The habit of keeping
On the corset all day at whatever avocation
:is.ts ia 'i 10 the daytime 0sn remove s0 tSsis s
corset " preliminary arrange
ment for rest and comfort. This
should not be done. The corset should fit
30 perfectly that such q removal should be
unnecessary. The modern dress reform
movement directs crusade against this
article of feminine apparel, and doctors
and wise men shake their heads over
v0man's determination to incase her form
in sn iron cage, but it is against the
ready-made garment that such vitupera-
lions shOuld be thrown, for good corset
with too many bones, is the most comfort
able support tired frame can find, and
he thought Of removing it never suggests
itself. II keeps the figure snug and up
right without one bit of lacing. sDl
And every woman who would have her
1ress fit we'll should look first to the fit of
ner corset. The queen OF Holland wears
he most expensive corset made for any
voman. They are Of the richest, softest
'rocades in pale green. heIitrope and
black. brocaded with Shaded figures or
,an follow her, but she uses shape which
. exactly right in every particular. Cut
1ery short at the hips, bust and back, very
ong over the abdomen, in fact, being
merely wide.boned waistband except
merely in front. Genevieve Ward, who is
! large woman, wears singular kind of
, corset. After she Ia dressed entirely ex-
'ept putting on her bordice. she slips
bone or steel, covered with silk, about !
,hrse inches wide and nine or ten long,
half its length down under the Wristbands
and for stout, heavy woman her figure 10 !
much admired. Certainly there is no
|acing about this.
Many good dressmakers ft their GUS
Eomers over correct, and then bone the |
waists we'll so that no stays are used after |
ward. but the figure is then unsupported !
when the waist 10 removed; especially |
when IN ones bedctamber woman is in |
her dressin9 gown, or even about the !
house in the looae tea gowns now much !
worn. And ~ ago comes on unsupported
waists will settle. uncon6ned flesh will |
and the figure, that woman's
;hsrn, 10 gone. Aa't
Another secret of keeping the figure is
% exercise the waist joints constantly and I
This is best done in the Del. |
|Artean misunderstanding firmly on |
he feet and swinging the waist round In |
! circle, now 10 the lsft. then 70 the right.
md BY drawing itup and idcun slowly
md then snddenly. Yetlanothar modern |
ad 10 10 lie dp~n frequeally 4sch day for
! moment o. two on pesf6etly fiat, hard !
ouch. This to Aeep the haCk straight. |
fashionable woman, with the usual |
Imount Of vanity. follows the style very |
arefully IN the matter OF underc!othinR
md reduces the number of pieces to the
ewest possible number. She wears one
kirt and the finest. thinnest corsetcover.
necessary for her health that skirt is
made of wool. But no American woman
I any pretense to style wears, as her
mother did, a flannel petticoat,
nd short underskirt and long
utside one. This makes the greatest diff
srence In shape and figure. One of the
ewest things brought out this season is a
lain black flannel skirt fine in quality
ned with thin black silk. thus prevent.
g any nnpleasing clingiuR Of the wool
the limbs and giving the wonanly.