The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-13
THE DoINGs OF woMEN FOLK.
Some Interesting Trit1es of News Tha
Are Peculiarly Feminine.

Some Interesting Trifles of News That
Are Peculiarly Feminine.
NEW YORK, June 8.-A woman who
makes corsets for half the actresses of New
York and for an indefinite number of So
ciety people says that black satin is the
standard corset for women not on the stage.
Scarlet, pink, blue or lilac stitching is ap-
Piled according to the taste of the fair
wearer or to correspond with the hueS of
her underwear or the furnishings of her
bedroom. Some of the rich Jewesses have
an especial liking for scarlet corsets stitched
with black, and an infinite number of deli
cate and fanciful shades are found in the
wardrobes of the buds and dressy young
matrons.
Southern women" pursued this infor-
mant, "wear white corsets almost exclu-
sively, and could hardly be persuaded that
ladies of responsibility would put such tints
and combinations of tints as are affected by
New Workers. Their preference agrees
with that of the actresses who were as a
rule simple white coutil"
"What is the fashionable woman paying
for her corset nowadays?"
Forty dollars will buy an excellent ar
ticle. Here is one that was ordered for the
wife of Senator Stanford, of California. 1t
is made. you see, of black satin lined with
black silk, and has an edging about the top
of black guipure. It is almost Identical
with the last corset made for Mrs. Harri-
son. There can be nothing better, either
in respect to workmanship or material, but
a woman's fad, such, for instance as braid
ing or the lavish hand embroidery in silk
floss which Mrs. Burke Roche dotes on, may
bring up the figures surprisingly The odd
est corset l ever made belonged to bridal
trousseau. 1t was white satin edged at the
top and bottom with the finest French
mako of lily of the valley sprays Women
who pride themse YES on having corset to
match each set of exquisite silk underwear
order half dozen at once in half dozen
colors and pay a bill of perhaps $3.50. 1t
would surprise them to know that Ada
Rehan. under those fetching gowns of hers,
wears coutil corsets at IS and S10."
do actresses wear different corsets from
other women?'
Actresses have passion for being clean,
and you couldn't persuade many of them to
buy heavy, lined satin corset and put it
on and wear it the length of time an ordi-
nary woman has to in order to get the
worth of her money. Of course she can
send 1t to the cleaner, but that's only a
makeshift process without water and won't
really cleanse any article that has been
worn, as so many women do their corsets,
next the person. Now an actress INDUCES
in two Injuries, plenty of baths and fresh,
pure clothing. She can't tolerate the stale
odors of perfumery or dead flowers about
her gowns She won't wear lined corset
Light coutil is her choice, it is more easily
cleaned and cheap enough to be constantly
renewed. There's Estelle Clayton, as hand
some specimen of womanhood as the
American stage can produce, she wears
nothing but white and gray coutil.
miss Clayton came to me for corsets be-
fore she was fitted for her gowns for The
Quick or the Dead Pretty figure she has
perhaps you never noticed anything pecu-
liar about it. It's very French, same swell
to the bust as the hips, with just two-inch
waist between. have to put gusset into
her corset above, precisely like the one
put in below, something do for no other
woman.
''Rose Eytinge wears coutil corsets also.
Mrs. Langtry wears satin and buys eight or
ten at a time in delicate pinks, blues and
greens, but hers are like Eytinge's in one
particular they are closed in front and
open behind. You don't see how that can
be. 1t makes the best shaped corset posi-
BILE. Mrs. Langtry's corsets are In one
piece, there is a Dusk or a widish board in
front but no clasps of any description. A
dozen yards of lacing is run in behind, then
the arms are lifted above the head and the
corset put over them. Then the lady's
maid or the lady herself pulls the lacings as
tight as may be wanted. It's southern
fae IN. / can remember when sontnern
ladies hardly wore corsets of any other de-
scription, The southerners took it abroad
with them, and then Mrs. Langtry broug hit
it to New York from England. She finds
it very convenient wnen she plays Rosa
lind" Many women keep their corsets
laced close ins the back and then compress