The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-24
HEAVYWEIGHT MA9R0nS
One aud The Only Way of Reduc-
ing Them to Sylphs.
That Wonderful Being. the Scicn-
tfHc Corset Maker. Can Trans
WASTED Figure With Long Curv-
ing Lines and n Slender Back.

How to put a woman weighing is5
pounds into gown that looks as II 1t
were meant for one weighing fifty pounds
less Is no problem at all to the dress
maker who knows her business
She gives Mrs. Falstaff critical but not
unhopefui survey. bids her bear up under
her pink and white burden. hands her the
address of a corsetElaker around the GER
ner. and goes on cutting out the proposed
frock on a scale of measures that Mrs.
Falstaf, in all her years of fat matron-
hood. never dared even dream about.
But the corsetmsker knows her business,
too, and she is the person who by one
pull Of the silk stay Iacers transforms a
perfectly grotesque figure into thing of
beauty, with long, lovely lines. rounding
hips, softly curving. weIl-proportioned
bust, and a straight. graceful back.
II she is 4 fairy godnIother for the
fat women her gifts are no less generous
to the thin ones. and she has accomplished
it all BY the simple secret Of getting TIE
right lines and taking grip in the right
place. a long waist. very fist hips, mr.
row back and iow-set bust is the figure
Of the up-to-date fashion Venus. and TO
woman some marvellous engines Of beauty
have had to be built. Sea Island cotton.
ccutiIle. satin coutille. six sill cloth. hand
woven linen. the finest quality OF bats e,
satin brocaGed silk. a little very highly
tempered steel. and the best Greecland
whaietcre put together with lots Of true
gerius is the receipt for the rev corsets
that turn Lars. FaIstaff OF any other Of her
sex into Queen Titaria-
no 10 0f or bv ha
scientific corset maker. to wear satin and
brocade. 1t is too bungliug. tie thinneat,
toughest coutifle woven Is necessary. and
the front Of the stay Is cut with the
straight bust Though cut SO low at the
bust the stout womans corset Is very long
below the waist Her hips are put under a
tremendous pressure by means Of lineR
flaps that lace in front over the abdomeI
or by the unusually long balI-shape cou-
tile skirts that are laced up in the rear
separately from the upper half Of the stay.
Nc pressure at all is put in the abdomen,
CT the stomach or the ribs. for the waist
Is made to look smaller because 1t is
heightened. The line Of the whole body
is so artfully changed that it entirely de-
ceives the eye. and after slouching like
setting hen. the fat woman suddenly
finds all her flesh supported and her body
smartIy brought uD into the position Of
West Point cadet on parade.
There is no brace to lazy shoulder
blades like this new corset, and the OBJ
ject of the long closely screwed down
hip casing is to 60 away with a growth OF
flesh there. for the modern fashion COM
mandment says thou shalt have no hips
After wearing these lengthy. cruel looking
but in reality glcriously comfortable stags
fer while the biggest cushions around
the waist begin to yield to the pressure.
But it is not only the monuments Of flesh
who go to these corset makers for reduc-
ton.
The crooked back and short WASTED and
the woman who has not much more figure
in the dressmaker's eyes than a school boy.
send UP daily offerings of high prices at
the smart corsetiero's shrine. she is good
to them all ard she Will locate a waist
lire, If you please, two inches farther down
than you ever had 1t before; she makes /,
special corset for wearing with tailor
dresses and a charming pompadour stay
for the Gebutante with a broolistlck fig
IRE.
The pompadour puts on his By means of
attached side flaps. has front exactly like
the cnrsets Louis Xv's favorite wore. and
is altogether one OF the most delicate con-
fections for the toilet that sartorial art
has yet produced. According to the new
code for figure making meme of these. even
for the thinnest women, is ever padded.
ANY padding done must go in the gown,
but on the stay never. for 1t is the faith Of
the modern corsetiere that when a wom-
ans body is held upon correct lines she Is
bound to be graceful, whether fat or thin.
and the dressriaker must put in the
rounding proportions.