The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-16
seems to me women get bigger, taller,

seems to me women get bigger, taller,
stronger. 1872 81 s.s= II ::..1s..z1 Vi s IS:
1.-THE younger generation, come tower
ing in nearly six feet high. Twas say
ing the other day that pretty soon we
will have to get stepladders in order to
fit them. AS it is, We naerly always
have to ask the young women to sit
down while we fit their shoulders.
Eyes, every one Of them wears a cor
set and always has. I don't fit three
women in a year who go without one,
and they are the sort who don't care
particularly whether their gown is
short in the front or whether it says
more on one side than the other.
Let me tell you one thing; the pres
ent style of dress is responsible for the
corset and not the corset for the press
ent style Of dress. Just as soon as Greek
draperies come back again, or Mother
Hubbards come in fashion, corsets will
probably go out, but not before, and I
don't believe that will be very soon
The manager of the custom order de-
partment of one of the big stores said
that there are many New York girls
who wear only modified corset, that
is, wide :waistband composed merely
of straps of ribbon and a bone behind
and in front. "Perhaps 80 per cent. OF
the girls employed in this store" she
added, wear this style Of corset, which
gives little pressure except just around
the waist. Yes, that is perhaps the
least desirable place to have pressure,
but then. as small waists are not the
fashion, don't believe any great harm
is done by wearing such Wristbands.
'Slim young girls are more or less in
dependent Of corset anyway, but the
stout ones and older women require one.
I think too that the American woman
owes much to the reputation she enjoys
for gracefulness and style to a we'll
fitting corset.
Smooth fitting dresses, that is, plain
basque waists, have not been worn for
several years. Loose fronts have been
the rule, and yet women have shown no
disposition tc take advantage Of that
fact and go without corset. They
know better"
"Anti-Corset league?' exclaimed an
other expert. II never heard of such .
thing. No, there isn't woman, young
or old, English, American or any other
nationality, who comes here but wears
a corset.
"As for men going to frown upon the
corset, / am afraid these Leeds women
are taking bigger contract than they
! can carry out. unless, indeed, the Eng
| lishman is very different from the
American.
"Why, there are lots of New York
men who buy their wives corsets. And
! every one knows that it is becoming
! more and more the custom for men to
escort their wives to the dressmaker's
and preside at the trying on.
| II have one customer-an adora bic
figure she has, too-who, after the first
| fitting invariably brings her husband
along for the others. The filter always
breads him, for he is far more critica
than his wife. One day he said with q
| frown:
| 1T seems to me your hips look toe
large in that gown
| AT which his wife became mucl
alarmed. and before she left ordered a
new corset whose lines were planned fol
the express purpose of shaving dow1
both hips: Don't talk to me about mer
nofsa 1nairing tylish &. i
AS for the average young unmarried
man, In these days, it is not SO mucf
the face as the figure that takes the
masculine eye, and a we'll built corse
mas lot to do in making the figure