, 1888-12-27
The Reason Why Some Women
Have Bad Forms.
stays Should Be Made,so as to
y Fit the Figure.
ssns 8eod Advice Yrom Madasnoiseile
Chic 7has sAs 0entlsr sex
'st Should YeiIsw.

now stout. Somebody has complained
that eli of them. after certain age, look
fat. We are well fed and well cared for,
10 women who live ia this land OF the free
and brave, and We like IL, but how we do
loathe TOO much hesh. sa44
seMum' 'selle believes that the reason for
Ahis increase OF size 10 a. much owing TO
sweets We eat. Stays or corsets ought a.
much be Atted 10 the figure which wears
then ~ the bodies which cover thsm.
Who ever got into ready-made wsist
which did not require some alterations, yet
thousands and thousands of women wear
rsady.msde stays and do not give the mat
ter thought.
Nam selle knows women with fienres as
utterly unlike a. beanpole and = barrel
who both wear twenty.three inch, long
wasted G. P. or P. d. corset. What sense
il there in thatp
Madame" said Mr.. Redfern, I'VE
make the 6ggah what 1t ought to be"
EYES," said Madame. ''but your idea
and mine of what the figure ought 10 be
seem 10 be quite at variance, and ] wear
the dress!"
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 il cut out by machinery by the hum
drsds ft everybodyp The answer 10 this
10 sort Of cross between an Irish bull
and sieh. They don't at everybody. and
rarely that particular body who buys them.
but custom. made corsets are no high, and
hew many women are there who can afford
70 pay $5, q, 80. or ei5 for single pair
Of eorsetsp And that il what is asked for
Every woman knows 1t, but it's
true. Dressmakers ought to make the
stays for their customers, fitting them rs
carefully a. for costly gown, and Q good
pair, made with real whalebones, ought
not to cost moro than e3. 1t would be
hardly possible to get them for less. Those
who cannot AFFORD this should learn to
make their own, but every woman ought
70 wear . corset fitting closely to every
that pattern No. for the correct she buys
was cut 10 ft wooden 6Rurep Besides
care in this, further caution 10 needed in !
another particular. The habit Of keeping
On the corset all day at whatever avocation
must be learned. Many women who take
. siesta in the daytime remove theii
corset ~ preliminary arrange
ment for rest and comfort. This
should not be done. The corset should fit
upnessary. The modern dress reform
movement directs crusade against this
article OF feminine apparel, and doctors
and wise men shake their heads over
womRn's determination to incase her form
in an iron cage, but 1t IL against the
ready y-made garment that such vitupera-
tions should be thrown, for good corset
made to oider. we'll fitting, and not heavy
with too many bones. il the most comfort
able support a tired frame can find, and |
the thought OF removing 1t never suggests
itself. 1t keeps the figure snug and up
right without one bit Of lacing.
And every woman who would have her
dress ft well should look first to the fit of
her corset. The queen OF Holland wears
the most expensive corset made for any
woman. They are of the richest, softest
brocades in pale green. heIitrope and
black. brocaded with shaded figures or
with gold and silver; In this few women
can follow her, but she uses shape which |
10 exactly right ia every particular. Cut
very short at the hips, bust and back, very
long over the abdomen, in fact. being |
merely wide.boned waistband except |
merely in front. Genevieve Ward, who ia
large woman, wears q singular kind of
q corsst. After she is dressed entirely ex- |
eept putting on her bordice, she slips q |
bone or STEEL covered with silk, about !
three inches wide and nine, or ten long.
half its length down under the wristbands |
and for o stout, heavy woman her figure is |
much admired: Certainly there is no
lacing about this.
Many good ,dressmakers ft their GUS
TONERS over q corset, and then bone the |
waists we'll so that no stays are used after |
ward. but the figure is then unsupported
when tho wsist 10 removed; especially |
when IN ones bedchamber woman 10 in |
ber drsssiDe eswn, or even about the
house il the loose tea gowns now much |
wo!n. And o ago comes on Unsupported
sccsnulate. and the figure, that woman's
charm. 10 gone. $500
Another secret Of keeping the figure is |
10 exercise the waist joints constantly and |
regularly. This is best done In the Del.
sartean MISUNDERSTANDING firmly on
the feet and swinging the waist round IN |
q circle. now 10 the left. then 70 the right,
and BY drawing itup and down slowly
and then snddenly. YetAnother modern
fad 10 10 lie down frequeatly each day for
moment Of two on apss41ctly fiat, hard
A fashionable woman. with the. usual
amount Of vanity, follows the style very
carefully IN the matter Of underclothinR
and reduces the number of pieces TO the
fewest possible number. She wears one
skirt and the finest, thinnest cOrsetcover.
II necessary for her health thst skirt is
made Of wool. But NO American woman
OF any pretense to style wears. as her
mother did, a flannel petticoat,
and short underskirt and long
outside one. This makes the greatest DIFF
ference in shape and figure. One Of the
ewest things brought out this season .is
plain black flannel skirt fine in quality
|ined with thin black silk, thus prevent
iug any emphasizing clingiug of the wool
% The limbs and giving the womsuly,
reptiy rastIing frou.frou OF skrts as one