The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
AN IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.
To Play Golf With Comfort was the
Cause.

To Play Golf With Comfort was the
Cause.
Dress reforms come and go, but
the corset lives them all down.
Doctors rail at it. Health associa-
tions make mighty hullabalOO
about it. Certain women's clubs
after carefully girding up their own
individual corsets launch the thuu-
derbOlts of their theoretical disap
prevail at the corset in general. 1t
must be that the doctors, the health
associations and the clubs enjoy the
excitement, for there is no other
visible reason for their keeping it up.
Apparently it has no effect on the
corset, which is MS popular as ever
The time has gone by-in tact it
never was--when a woman could be
truly said to be settled in life The
goddess of fashion sees to il that a
woman never has a chance to settle
down. No marriage--no, nor any
number of marriages--can accom-
plish it.
How is a woman to feel settled
when she has to be elOngating her
waist or shutting it up like Japan
ese lantern! That is the way wo
man has to live. One season she has
to have large hips, and the next no
hips at all. In June she must be
willOwy; in January she must be
boutfante; long feet this year, short
feet next; blooming in spring; frag
lie in autumn; brunette, then blond;
first she has no ears, next she has no
brow, and next she can't get brow
enough; presto, change, her hair
must 90 from grave to gay. from
black to gold, from a soft primness
to an Astounding and effulgent pom
| padour. A woman cannot feel set
tied when she has tn be compiling
her own vital statistics OH such a
scale.
That's the way it is with cOrsets.
Women have no sooner got used to
the short French corsets then along
comes a decree from the fashion
mongers and announces that the
English style will prevail. When
women first undertook to wear the
short corsets, they felt as If they
had got into girdle by mistake.
Their shoulder blades timidly
scraped up an acquaintance with
! their gowns, and the women first
pulled the corset down and then
"hunched" it up in an effort to reach
the accustomed limits. And no
sooner have they given up all this
and adjusted a new boundary line
than the whole thing has to be done
again.
What the pleas of the doctors did
not accomplish, however, has never
! theless been gained in roundabout
way. Probably the increasing inter
est which women have taken in out
door sports is responsible for the
greatest change in the corset. With
in the last years dealers have been
overwhelmed with demands for a
corset which would give the weareT
room just above the waist. The
cOlOred plates shown at health lee
lures and tOinting terrible warnings
about the compression of the float.
ing ribs were not behind this demand
1t was the wOman's own iutolerable
discomfort. She had tried to walk,
to play golf, to ride wheel, and she
simply suffered tOrtures because she
couldn't breathe.
A corset has now been produced
which not only laces in the back
but also on each hiu. In this way
there can be had all the room any.
body wants above the waist, while
around the hips the secondary lac.
ing holds it good and Arm and snug
The corset man says that a woman
with abnOrmally large hips and thai
common defect of a woman's figure
at 40, crOwding OF flesh down below
the waist, can restore the lines o.
her figure by wearing one of these
corsets. He does not mean that she
will grow slender, but that the fest
will resume its proper position anC
that her lines, while they may bt
excessive in the matter of curves
Till not be MISUNDERSTANDING.