Daily camera., 1901-09-12
NEW CORSET FOR STOUT MEN.
Il Cane Into Vogue Contemporaries
ous1I and ~ . Result 81 the
Shlftwaist.

II can truthfully say that l was
never so cool or so comfortable as I
have been since wore corset" said
the fat man. slipping seltzer lemonade
through q straw, relates the New
York Sun. II alwavs had an
idea that man who wore corset did
so through foolishness or desire for
q small waist. Look At mel"
He was the last man In thewor.d that
one would associate with corSets, be-
ing very stout, although we'll groomed
and with an erectness from the waist
up that is not alwsr one Of Q fat mans
characteristics.
1.-The way got to wear one OF the
things" he said. was when noticed
Tonwate going round In his shirt
then I began to notice that his shirt
didn't set in wrinkles. damp and un-
pleasant looking, but that II had q
taut look, and that puzzled me, for
Tonwate weighs more than 1.
FINALLY l asked him about it and
then he told me of Twenty-third
street corset maker who had invented
corset girdle for fat men just as soon
as the shirt-waist fad came out last
year. She reasoned right away that
fat men would be debarred from the
new idea. for the trouble with a fat
man is that his flesh creases and lay
ers about his waist, and this doesn't
look pretty in a shirt waist.
This woman got up flexible light
weight belt with few good. stiff bone $
over the hips. and the result was a
neat-looking waist. the bod y not seem
ing to come in contact with the outer
linen. 1t was the greatest thing ever
invented. and l ordered several Of
them, and I wouldn't be without one
now"
The inventive corset maker is sell
ing dozens of these girdles to stout
men. and il shipping them in guam
titles to the summer resorts where
men ride horseback a md play golf with
out coats. Il call them girdles," she
explained. because the idea OF a cor
set worn by a man is associated with
dudes and military dandies who some
times wear shape stays to give them q
graceful waist line.
my girdles are simply to hold in
the surplus flesh about the waist so
that II doesn't come In visible contact
with the outer garment. II is this
principle which causes a woman in q
shirt waist to look cool. But when
men wen. in for the shirt waist In
their endeavor to look as cool as the
shirt-waist girl they forgot the fact
that woman's body is carefully grid
ed in beneath her waist. For thin mel
it was not so difficult. but for fat men
the shirt waist was impossible.
II thought it all out one day when
. very stout man in shirt waist came
into a car. He looked so very un-
pleasant and warm that began to
realize that q corset was In reality a
cool garment. and hen ! quickly
evolved the notion Of the o1rdle. II
took immediate hold when displayed
one in my shop window with pic
ture showing the use Tor which 1t was
intended
while the shirt waist for men has
not proved very popular In the cay,
1t is the general rule In the country.
Men ride amt row and drive and play
golf and tennis in the loose: waists of
silk and flannel and linen. The dining
room and the drawing-room are the
only places that are forbidden the sum-
mer man without coat. And the
uses Of the girdle have been appre-
ciated. The tailors advocate them
now, as their use does away with belts
or suspenders. The trousers are cut
so that they set over the xirkk in mil
ftary fashion"