The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-23
FIGURES NOW MADE TO ORDER.
Corset Expert at Dressmakers' Con-
vention Tells How It Is Done.


Chicago. March 2s.-The long back
ed corset is not the thing and the
straight front is still in vogue. This
is the corset experts comforting word
to Chicago women. She goes farther
to say: Chicago women. most Of
them, must not wear the long back
corset. 1t is built for the extremely
stout woman. The typical Chicago
woman is not stout; she is slender,
with a long waist. The long back
corset would make a perfect sight of
her"
The corset expert is one of the most
popular features of the national dress
makers convention, which opened
yesterday in the Fine Arts building
She has announced that she will fit
any woman free of charge who will
serve as illustration for the corset lee
lures The first of these lectures is to
be given tonight in Music hall of the
Fine Arts building.
There are to be professional models
who will demonstrate the irregulari-
ties of the human figure. From them
the corset expert will show how diff
f1culties may be overcome. There is
the too stout woman and the girl who
is like a bean pole. Properly corseted
they are to appear plump, round
waisted or slender, as the occasion de-
mands.
For those who offer themselves as ex-
amples of impossibilities the corset wo-
man promises wonders in figure build
ing. Just take away from the hip
she says, add to the length of the
waist draw the back down. 1t is all so
easily done without making one feel the
least bit less comfortable. Surely the
properly corseted woman is the only
really happy one.
But how about the long back" some
one asked her
The corset woman is surrounded by a.
mob of anxious women She also has
her electric lighted specimens, in pink
and blue satins. with much real lace
and elegance of figure. The fat women
always sigh when they look at the tidy
models. But the corset specialist is en-
couraging. She says: Now, there is
no reason why you shouldn't look like
that. That is, you might look some
thing lke-you would be deformed if
you were just like them. But you, my
ure at a glance-"you need and so on
until the stout person in question is per-
fectly satisfied that she can hide some
of it,
Mrs. E. D. Dean, who is the director
of cOret demonstration for the conVen-
ton, has this to say about the long
back; IF you are short and stout don't
wear it: if you are too long don't wear
sion, but it is not for everyone to wear.
People must learn that they can't go
into a store and buy any corset.
To have a corset right you must be
fitted just as you are fitted for shoes, and
there is everything in having the corset
fit right. There could not be one style
and everyone wear 1t. If there were half
the women in the world would be perfect
frigilts. If the corset fits just right the
waist will be round. We don't have the
waist as low as we used to- 1t comes
at the perfectly natural point, wherever
that may be. Everyone has a waistline,
you know, and if the hips are too heavy
for the bust we lessen them with a long
hipped corset and vice versa. Each figure
must be fitted according to its needs. The
tightest point on the corset. however,
should be just below the floating ribs.
ITO do that you must take deep
breath just as the 1acing begins. That
throws the rib up and slight tightening
of the strings will hold it there and keep
the corset from slipping. People have al
ways complained of straight fronts slip
ping up, but if they are fitted right they
won't do that