The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-10
IDEAS for d6Mofnen.


the teacher of health culture. Imagine it!
Yet 1t doesn't make the waist large nor
would a woman who wears it be dubbed
a dress reformer.
II merely will help her to stand cor
rectly, which means that every curve of
her figure will be shown to it's best adj
vantage. The new corset accomplishes
what the old corset never even dared to
attempt.
First, 1t Ii so constructed that she who
wears it will be more apt to draw her
stomach in han 10 allow it to assume a
conspicuous position. This is so because
the corset is made very narrow in the
front.
All the strips are cut on the bias, n
are arranged so that they form a point
in front. They start to curve directly UNI
der the bust. which tends not only to
draw the stomach in. but to make the
waist slender.
Second, the corset is much wider from
the side to the back than it is from the
side to the front, which is just the oppo-
site measurement to that of the ordinary
corset.
This extra width is filled in by the fig
ure, for when the stomach is drawn in
the back is necessarily extended. Thus
the woman who wears this new corset
need never spend her money for a hustle.
She has one always with her.
And, third, 1t is the natural inclination
of every woman who wears this corset to
assume a military carriage; that is, to
draw her stomach in, let her chest ex-
pand. and extend the lower part of her
back. If she does this. she will add
much to the effect of her Worth gown
or her new tailor-made suit.
But before this new corset appeared,
this position was not easy to assume. The
A-merican-made corset to which the aver
age woman has been accustomed has
been made so broad IN front that it was
more natural for the stomach to stand
out than to be drawn in-all the strips
were arranged straight UP and down.
There was no suggestion of their COM
ing to a point in front nor did they
start to curve below the bust. AS for the
back of the old corset, it was at least
three good inches narrower than the new
one. which all tended to make a woman
stand in the position most natural to her,
when she is very t-ired-namely, with her
stomach thrown out. her chest contracted,
and the lower part Of the back so fiat
that its need of a hustle was most appar-
emit.
The new corset does away with all
this. 1t gives a woman not only a styi-
ish figure, but one almost hygienically
correct.
A number of the best handmade
French corsets have resembled this cor
set in the way of strips have been ar
ranged, giving the slender effect to the
waist and the fiat stomach, but never
before has an American corset been de-
signed like this
The new corset is made In plain cou-
tile, in coutilIe with the strips in satin
and embroidered, and in satin brocade.
Many Of the corsets this year which
the shops are selling are most gorgeous
and costly affairs. With fashionable
women the day of the plain corset is
over. 1t is the corset Of brocaded satin
lace trimmed that is the vogue.
Corsets are made to match the silk
petticoat. One seen recently was of
white satin, brocaded with yellow roses.
The top of the corset was edged with
a tiny ruffle of real Eound-point lace, and
below this, all around the corset, ex-
@sn.siteiy fine lace roses were ap~pliqued
to the satin broeade.
III cerse. laeings were of yellow silk.
Other corsets, not so ~perlshabIe, are
made of Persian silk. To wear with |
black gowns there is the black satin cor
set, trimmed with black thread Lace.
The corsets for low-eut evening cos
TUNES are almost short enough to be
Empire g.rdles- One which is a novelty
this season was of delicate pink satin,
covered entirely with lace. The effect
was exquisite. The skirt sold with this
corset was of the same shade of pink
satin. Thu upper part of it was covered
with the lace, which gave it the appear
ance of a lace veil thrown over the satin.
From the knees down the skirt was a
mass of ~ruffles, but all as flmy and airy
as foam. They were made of pink chiffon
and lace, alternating one with the other.
The price asked for this skirt and cor
set was $500.
The corset with unbreakable hips is a
blessing to the stout woman. 1t is |
made with the fine bones on each hip so
IA IACJ AVtAh q hdt n. Ills
absolutely prevents the corset from
breaking.
The corsets to wear with morning
gowns are unusually short this year.
They are merely girdies. just high
enough to support the bust.
They come in all the new delicate |
shades of plain satin n brocaded satin. |
and many of them are finished at the |
top with rows of lace beading, through
which narrow ribbon is run. Here and
there the ribbon is tied in tiny, puffy
rosettes.
1t is not an up-to-date idea that has
been introduced with the fad for massage
steaming and skin nourishment, this bath
ing for the Improvement of the good
looks. but 1t is one of the most essential
requisites to the keeping of a fresh, young
and unwrinkled state of the complexion.
Hundreds of years ago the efficacy of |
tho bath as a beautifier was known and
literally appreciated by the women of
Rome. who also used it as a remedy for /
a superiority of flesh.
They used the bath hot and highly per-
fumed, and many times daily for the re-
duction of flesh, consequently the Roman
matron was noted for a stately grace that
is ~well-night impossible to those of a too