Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-05-10
MEN WHO WEAR CORSETS.
VERY PRETTY ONES, TOO, AND
THEY COST $40 OR MORE.

How to Tell When Man Has One Oh
Is Man More Proud Of His Shape Tha
woman9-It Is Difficult to Find wher
the Expensive shapers Are Made.
There is in one Of the corset manufactorie
of New York little blonde haired womal
who has for many years made a speciality o
mems corsets, and has established an exten
siye business in a western city. She had
man trained to take the measures and fit tn
corsets and frequently she or her forewomar
never saw the customers for whom they
made corsets regularly. It is very paying
business, for men rarely question the prize
of an article they wish to purchase, and
mems eorsets are always made to order and
never kept in stock. woman the shape Of
tub and a woman the shape Of broomstick
viii buy the same make Of corsets in different
sizes, and somehow fit herself into them; but
If a man wants a corset at all he wants it to
fit, and the cheapest ones made to order
cost $40.
They do not differ materially from wom-
ans corset in construction, being made of the
same material only with heavier bones and
stronger steels They differ very materially
in shape, however, being shorter and nearly
straight up and down, though the constant
wearing Of the corsets conduces TO add full
ness of chest, which compensates for the
pretty bust curve and slope to a woman's
waist They are usually made Of gray sateen
or coutil, but occasionally very fastidious
customer is found who orders the daintiest of
materials and decorations
REGULAR BEAUTIES.
One Of the lady's customers always wore
satin corsets of a delicate color, Tossed and
laced with silk. He was very stout, and
broke a great many Of the silk laces, which a
woman viii wear almost a year without
breaking One Of his latest orders is a Nile
green satin corset Tossed and laced with car
dinal silk, and trimmed at the top and bot
tom with fine white lace, for which he paid
S2j with no demur.
Another customer was so extremely modest
that he never went into the store, but his
wife took his measure and ordered the cor
sets, fitting them on herself when they
were finished 1t requires three visits to in
sure n perfect fitting corset-one for the
measure, which is taken very carefully; one
for the fitting, when only half the bones are
In and the steels basted in place, and one for |
the final examination, when everything is |
finished After one perfectly fitting corset |
has been made, however, only one fitting is |
required
Corsets are worn most by actors, the fit Of 4
whose garments furnishes at present a large
proportion of their stock in trade Then
there are clerks who sit bending over desks
all day and half the night, to whom corsets
are frequently recommended by their ply
sicians as a help toward Strengthening their
curved spines, men who from some injury or
physical imperfections are obliged to wear
them, and fair percentage of dudes who re-
Joice in small waist and a smoothly fitting
coat An ambitious cutter in one of the
swell establishments, where a suit Of clothes
may be purchased for the price of a brown
stone block, has an idea Of winning an heiress
Tor his wife at some popular summer resort
where he spends his vacations and accord
ingly arrays himself in all the elegance the
establishment affords, hooks himself into
double boned corset, and lays siege to the
hearts Of the fair ones Before he adopted ,
the corset he buclled a broad belt Of heavy | ,
leather about his body at the waist, but as he
grew stout this expedient lost its efficacy I
"A mans corsets are as readily detected by
his fellow men as the faintest touch of rouge q
on woman's face is always discovered by !
her sister woman Gentlemen say that man /
In corsets goes up stairs like a woman and !
walks differently, and that if you observe
him closely for few minutes he will give a
little peculiar hitch to his shoulders, as if he II
were endeavoring to pull himself up out Of (
the corsets IL was by watching Berry Wall o
mount flight Of stairs that it was fully de q
termined that he was laced into a snugly n
hitting corset His wife accompanied him, "
and they made thesam motions in the ascent y
Both the king dude and his rolly poly little r.
chum wore cOrsets regularly on important i
It was at Nine. Griswald's on q
Broadway that the pink haired dude returned +,
D pair Of baby blue satin corsets trimmed Il
with lace, after they had been fitted three n
times to have them made q half an inch n
smaller, and his anxious perplexity was very
amusing to the mischievous merry maiden
who fitted them ON.
THE PRINCE WEARS THEM g..
1t is no secret that Osmond Tearle wore n u
'orsets, and that Kyrle BeLew wears them 9.
till. The noble Antony has them made in II
london in a little shop in Conduit street. y
They are not trimmed with pink lace or en- =
'ellished with embroidery, which is the only -
uprising thing about them, but they are -
.ehciously small and very short, not more y.
han SIX or eight inches up and down. ~
In the same shop the Duke Of Beaufort has ~
he pink satin, lace edged corsets, which be =,
makes no secret of wearing, manufactured 4. u
nd embroidered with his monogram sur. p
Mounted by a ducal coronet He is an old, u.
ecrepit man, with a wrinkled yellow face ~ ~
nd fringe of white whiskers, and so bent ~ ~
yer with age that the line Of his corsets is "
lainly discernible through his dress coat. s1-
is said that the Prince of Wales affects ar
hem, too, and that that is why he has aban- &c
oned horseback riding. Corsets are worn an
ute extensively by men in Paris and all
ne handsome officers in the German army
ear corsets under their uniforms
Though corsets are worn by men in New
ork, it is extremely difficult to find out pu
here they are made. There is no special wa
anufactory for them, and though most of at
le first class corset places receive orders for orr
lem occasionally, they are verHreticent on the
10 subject, for any publicity given to the to
ct would destroy the business altogether. VIII
here is one bright woman corset maker on see
street who advertises to make a At
ecialty Of mems corsets and receives a ven
eat many orders, which she fills simply bv ing
king women's cUrsets Of large size and re- ouG
owing the cores in the bust and taking out 60
me OF the fullness at the hips. Merchant wa
nors would hail with delightthe general use
corss-s, as they would render the fttingof ;
rments much easier, and enable them to
ep smooth and in shape much longer. FOL
It is the stout men who take to them most
ably and who suffer most in wearing them. S
1t Is limited that two of the handsomest try
ress coat actors in New York resort to shiI
ar use on the stage Watch the man who con
yer leans back comfortably in his chair. lty
lose coat does not pull In lines at every the
tton or gradually work up toward his owl
,ulders. and wbose chest is rr,1sroIl,, the
md and full. and If he seems nj intervais thei
be pulling himself IN ont IF bis o,ar,,,o,t, tina
the shoulders and goes upstairs with an viii
lexible back, you may safely infer that he ni9 u
aeed into pair Of $40 stays, though he
uldn't admit it any sooner than a woman the
uld own her shoes were too tight.-New ISM
rk Sun.
Forced to Leave Home. 70