The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-06
MEMS coRsETs.
They Are Made by a Detroit Lady-Dudes
Wear Them, but on the Quiet.


Il wonder. which corset I'd better
wear tonight pondered Willie Dude
fellow, as he turned over with his slim
fingers half dozen lace-trimmed af-
fairs in different shades of coloring.
Il suppose" he continued. that l
ought to wear my white one, to match
my white tie, but this sky-blue is
beauty. Real lace, too, for an edge. |
believe I'll have the next one of cream
satin with half-a-dozen diamonds. AL
though pearls are very fashionable this
season for young ladies-that is for
young gentlemen, | mean. Come to
consider the matter, I believe I'll have
pearls.
Here, 'vally,' draw this corset lace
a little tighter, will you? I'm afraid
my waist is not as snapely as it should
be, considering the pains I take with
it. What's that? Simply perfect? Do
you really think so, 'vally? Well, you
ought to know, you've laced some of
the SWEETEST waists in the country. Say,
'vally,' do you think it would be very
uncouth for me to wear this divine blue
corset with a white tie? Not to be
thought Of? Dear, dear! Fashion is
such tyrant. Sometimes, do you know,
l quite envy those rugged fellows who
dig in the bitches. They don't have to
bother about the matching of a tint IN
neckties or worry over the ACCESSIBILITY
of wearing pink corset to a violet tea.
Draw the lacing a bit closer, 'vally.'
That'll do! Yes, quite comfortable,
thanks! It's to be the white one after
all, then"
And Willie Dudefellow sighed a deep
sigh. as he glanced once more lovingly
at the blue satin corset which must
not be worn with the white tie to an
evening function.
Do men really wear corsets? Why,
yes they do, although not as boldly as
women do. What for? WE'LL for sew
eral reasons. Some of them want
support for the back; some wear them
as a protection from the weather and
some do really want to improve their
shape That is. they want a slim waist,
and that, in their opinion, is an i'm
provement to the human form, be it
male or female.
There are different kinds of corsets
manufactured for men, and are usually
made to order. Miss Moylan of Wash
ington avenue, Detroit whose whole
trade consists Of order corsets, has
made some of those beauty-shapers for
the masculine form and tells some odd
stories concerning them.
Zone time" said she, "a man, trav-
cling salesman, came to have his meas
ure taken for a regular corset, with full
complement of bones, steels, etc. He
wanted it made up in the best of style
and of the finest material. 1t cost him
$40, and he paid without murmur.
Sometime after he gave another order,
saying that the corset had proved SO
comfortable that he wanted another
m a q fhic TINA ir, o1 o tn
fashion, in fact, he was just as partieu-
lar as lady could have been. When
he took the corset he said that he would
never be without one again, and com
fessed that he slept in it, and that his
figure was very much improved. I
thought myself that it was very funny.
"A good many men keep a corset just
for social occasions to shape the wais.
to look slim in q dress coat, continued
Miss Moylan. Then there is the girdle
corset, worn by men who want slight
support, and the cuirass or vest corset,
which is a great protection against the
weather, and is worn by men who drive
or in other ways face the cold a great
deal. These are shaped like vest, only
they come up high toward the throat,
and are fastened at the side withSa
buckle. They are almost impenetrable
to the cold, and may be made in differ
Cit degrees OF StlIneSS, unaI Is, heavily
boned or made pliable.
Il once made vest corset for a sur
seon in the regular army who was about
to leave for Montana. 1t was a curios-
ity. The sheaths which receive the
bones We're stitched in such manner as
to make the bones overlap each other
and when it was finished it was a verit-
able coat of mail. A bullet striking this
corset would glance off it, and prove
quite harmless to the wearer. This was
I believe in SIS. About five years later
the same officer came to me again and
ordered another corset of the same de-
scription. He brought the old one with
him evidently he did not wear it con-
stantly) and showed me the imprint C
about so bullets which had struck him,
but which had failed to penetrate the
cuirass of overlapping steels.'
DO you ever fit corsets to very small
children?" was asked.
Yes, 1 do was the answer: las
young as or 4 years But that is
usually only in cases when there is
some spinal trouble and the corset is
preferred to the plaster cast. For such
cases l make what is called the spinal
jacket, which is a kind of corset, or cor
set waist made very stiff as support.
l have known both children and grown
people to be cured of spinal difficulties
by the use of a properly fitted corset.
If such restriction could be applied
when one first begins to grow crooked
it would very often prove great as
sistance."