The San Francisco call., 1909-10-01
COMFORT HERE
FOR FAT LADY
Corsetiere Advises Stout
Women to Let Out
Their Waists
BY MARY ASHE MILLER


Wars and rumors of wars threaten |
to mar the future The dress makers \
and the corsetieres do not agree. At the |
session of the former recently held in |
It was announced that the new
fashions for this winter would necessi- |
tate return to the old curved lines of
the feminine form. Corsets, they said. |
were to continue long. but smaller in
the waist and fuller in the hips. But
the dress makers reckoned without their
host.
Not so--not So" say the corsetieres
in chorus. straight lines for women's
figures are the rule for the winter, de-
spite the Chicago assemblage."
Tell the stout women to let out their
waists" is the message am permitted
to bring you from one of the Leading
corset makers and importers of the city
who has just returned from New York
Now, this is no flippant, frivolous jocos-
ity on my part 1t is serious advice. 1t
will mean an easier life for the poor fat
lady. who has plunged and tossed.
kicked and rolled, starved and trotted
IN an endeavor to make herself the same
size all the way up and down. The cor
setiere is a kind hearted creature, IL
seems. even if she has been bit tyran-
nicaI at times. She is sorry for the
women who have had to work so hard.
and-although they must be built on
nature lines" as she calls them-she
will permit compromise.
No longer is it absolutely imperative
that the up TO date woman have, Ike
Cassius, "a lean and hungry look"
You may be larger altogether-built
on more majestic lines. If your hips
are too pronounced it will be quite right
If you do not let your waist be small
Preserve the relative proportions and
you may be good forn-in dual sense
whether your hips measure 81 or AZ
inches.
"The winters fashions will be a lit
tie longer wasted" declared tailor
whose name it is comfort to display
on the inside of ones coat collar, "and
there is a slight, just tiny curve at
the waist as opposed to the perfectly
straight coats of last year. But
smaller waists for the fades? oh. no.
certainly not. The corset must keep
the lines straight only the coat is cut
in, very little trihe.'
From a corset maker came the in
formation that, for some unknown rea-
son, the eastern and the western figures
differ as to the manner of gaining adj
pose tissue. and the San Franciscans
have the best of it. Eastern women
are prone to spread" as it is tech
nicaliy termed. above the waist. and
for heayiness of shoulders and neck the
corsetiere can offer no relief. In fact
she must effact her handiwork as much
as possible, as a high corset pushes
the flesh up into the neck and chin un-
til the face is actually disfgured- In
the west it is a tendency to hip de-
velopment that the conscientious
woman must fight and in this case
WELL who is your strongest ally but the
corset maker?
Let out your waist and the super
structure of your corset, but let them
extend nearly to your knees.
Not the heavily boned. stiff affairs
only horrid. cheap eorsets are of that
type Just have few plant bones,
coming well down, and the extension
of well cut and properly adjusted
cloth That. 1 was informed. some-
what naively, 1 thought, will permit
any one to sit down in perfect comfort
and can not be harmful either. This
may be tight, but no laciRs- That
habit, it seems, is the resort of the
stupid and the gluttonous and gives a
gross and unnatural appearance.
But be of good cheer, We lazy ones,
who long to eat and rest; the Chicago
dress makers give you all manner Of
eneoura cement and even the cor
setieres have thrown out lifeline.