Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-25


corset question has been discussed over
and over again since the days when their
wearers called them stays and wore
something like small ironing-board in
them, which they called a "busk.
Specimens of these instruments OF torture
are still to be found in OLD garrets in eoun-
try houses; but corset Of the present gen.
Grafton NEED not he an unhealthy or un-
comfortable thing. 1t generally is, though.
The inch or two that it should have at the
belt, and the inch or two that should be cut
of Of the length, convert IL into the cause
OF misery and disease.
A very neat and useful thing a corset
might be, and is, when worn short, not too
tight, and is made with a few flexible
whalebones No observer knows the differ
ence; and the wearer can stoOp, recline,
button her own shoes, and pick up any
thing she happens to drop (and gallantry
being on the decrease, this is great point;
yet she will exist in state OF agony, long
ing for tue time when she may "get that
tight thing on simply that any one with
tape measure at hand could declare that she
was twenty-five inches around the waist
instead OF twenty four She will wear
skirts that weigh enough to make walking
a misery, because a dress maker tells her
feather weight and have precisely the same
effect. That is point for whch-Heaven
knows why-any one who is not her own
dress.maker has to contest tiercely.
The heavy skirt is not desired by any one.
Every woman must be conscious that it
hurts her, that she can not walk gracefully
in it, and now and then, in its last days, she
divests it OF superiority OF drapery and
lining, and finds, TO her surprise, that it
looks much prettier.
Cloth is actually too heavy for a wom-
ans dress. The tailor-m made girl, or her
mother, pay in the small coin OF petty tort
ures for their superior elegance; but they
are comfortable in comparison with the
victim Of an unskilled and vulgar dress
maker, who festoons about the hips OF her
customers great masses of cloth, as though
they were lambrequins for a window, or
those decorations which we see on pub.
lie buildings when great man dies.
''How happy one feels in tea gown |
heard a lady say the other day; and when it
is so easy, why not be happy always:
A matron looks better in tea gown than
IN any thing else she wears; and youth and
beauty who venture on the aesthetic on
festive occasions are both charming and
comfortable. Yet the very women who
would De relieved OF many ACHES duu pains
by the general adoption OF beautiful Co.'S
tunes which suit the personality, the taste
and the physical needs OF the wearer, sneer
at and profess themselves shocked by
"these aesthetic people, who will, how
ever, have their way at last, fancy, be-
cause they have common sense on their
side.
Then, too, science is having much more TO
do with our lives in every direction than it
used to have; and aesthetics which, as we
all know, is the science OF taste''-must
assuredly have its place. According to
present ideas, the most.eegant lady is the
one whom you can not tell, with ner back
TO you, from the thing OF wood and metal
called in modisles' establishments 1.-THE
FORM" if they do but wear the same clothes.
1t is not original to refer any one TO ths
Venus OF Milo as what a woman ought to be,
and therefore will only mention that she
could wear an aesthetic dress, and so could
any other antique female statue, and come
to life in il Ia Galatea very gracefully =
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