The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
SCIENTIFIC CORSET MAKING.
1t Guarantees to Turn Out an Up-to-
Date Fashion Venus.

New York. June 22-How to put a wo-
man weighing 1856 pounds into a gown that
looks as if 1t were meant for one weigh
ing fifty pounds less is no problem at all
to the dIessmaker who knows her bust
ness.
She gives Mrs. FaIstaff a critical but not
unhopeful survey, bids her bear up under
her pink and white burden, hands her the
address OF a corset maker around the cor
ner and goes on cutting out the proposed
frock on a scale of measures that Mrs.
Falstaff in all nor years of fat matronhood
never dared, even dreamed about. But
the corset maker knows her business. TOO.
and she is the person by one pull of the
silk stay lacers transforms a perfectly
grotesque figure into thing of beauty
with long, lovely lines, rounding hips.
softly curving, well proportioned bust and
a straight graceful back.
If she Is a fairy godmother for the fat
woman her gifts are no less generous
to the thin ones, and she has accom-
plished 1t oil by the simple secret of get
ting the right lines and taking a grip in
the right place. A long waist, very fiat
hips, a narrow back and lowest bust is
the figure of the up-to-date fashion Venus.
and TO accomplish these proportions for
every woman some marvellous engines of
beauty have had to be built. Sea island
cloth, hand-woven linen. satin brocaded
silk, little, very highly tempered steel
and the best Greenland whalebone put to-
gether wit h lots of true genius is the
receipt for the new corsets that turn Mrs.
Fnlstaff or any other of her sex into
Queen Titania.
The stout woman IS not allowed. by the
scientific corset maker. to wear satin and
brocade 1t Is too bungling, the thinnest,
toughest coutille woven is necessary, and
the front OF the stay Is cut with the
straight busk. Though cut so low at the
bust the stout woman's corset Is very long
beow the waist. Her hips are put under
a tremendous pressure by means of linen
flaps that lace in front over the abdomen
or by the unusually long bell-shape cou-
tile skirts that are laced up In the rear
separately from the upper half of the
stay.
No pressure at all Is put on the abdo-
men, or the stomach or the ribs. but the
waist is made to look smaller because
1t IS Enlightened. The line Of the Whole
body is so artfully changed that IL en-
trely dfceiyos the eye, and after sioueh-
ne like Getting hen. the fat woman
suddsrly finds all her flesh supported and
o body smarlly brought up into the p)-
sition of a West Point cade- on parade
There IS no brace to lazy shoulder
blades like this new corset, and the OBJ
ject of the lona closely screwed down
hip casing is to do away with growth
OF flesh there for the modern fashion
commandment Gays thou shalt have no
hips" After wearing these lengthy, cruel
looking but IN real ~ gloriously com fort-
able stays for while the biggest cushions
around the waist begin TO yield 10 the
PRESSURE But II Is not only the menu
nlents OF flesh who go to these corset
makers for reduction. The crooked back
ed and short wasted and the woman who
has not much more figure in the dress
makers eyes than a s.hool boy send up
daily offerings OF high prices at the SNARE
corsetiere's shrine She is go d to them
all and she VIII locate a waistline, II you
pleast two inches farther down than you
e er h-d 1t efo C; she makes a s ecial
corset for wearing with tailor dresses
and "a charm ng pompadour stay for the
cebutarte with a bro, m-stick figure.
The pompadour puts on hips by means
OF aItpched side naps, has a front eyactiy
like the corsets Louis %V's favorite wore
ard is altogether one Of the m st Ge ate
conf sctlors for IN, toilet that sartoral
at has yet roduc d Accord ng to he
new code fer figure making none OF these
egfn for The thirnost W. men, is ever pad
dsd Any padding done must go IN the
iowr, but on the stay never for II IS
the faith OF the modern cOrsetiere that
when woman's body Is held uTon cor
recs Ines she Is bound to be- grace eul.
whether fat or thin, and the dressmaker
must put in the rounding proportions.
Fanny Enders.