Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-28
DEMONSTRATES CORSETS
WITH LIVING MODEL S
Madame Conklin Lectures to Richmond
"omcn-Scv Style Models, She
says, Are More Sensible
ny BRENT WITT.

She who is clever she who would
be wei! cown.d. let her take heed. and
attend the lectures of Madame Conklin
this week concerning the Importance
'oi beins scientifically corseted.
Madame conklin demonstrates with
living models At the j. r. Mosby & Co.
store to-day and tomorrow from II
TO II NJ. and To 1. and ; to C p NJ
She is prominent corscticre and
anatomist from the Royal Worcester
corset Company, who has made tho
subject OF corsets her life study, and
an interested audience Of well-known
Richmond women listened with all
easerness and attention yesterday to
her discourse on the Bon Ton models
The smartly dressed woman Of to-
day spends her time and talent in
consideration OF great many points
or her costume, besides the fabrics Of
which her gowns arc fashioned Tho
frock is merely the finished result
the corset Is the sure foundation. and
that IS the detail that may make or
mar the whole.
Madame Conlilin told In a most in
teresting manner the uses and abuses
or this important part of woman's
wardrobe, illustrating the various cor
sets for tho season upon the pretty
models brought here for that purpose
Nothing was shown at tho lecture yes
tciuiN iiitn tpu!u not ne purchased
In the shop here. There were models
for fat women. lean women. short and
tail. big and little. with a dcmonstra-
ton or the proper place for the proper
garment 10 he worn, and the adjust
mcnt of these for tho individual figure
DESIGNS THIS YEAN ARE
MORE SENSIBLE THAN FORMERLY
Shorter skirts To the corscts than
were used last year are featured this
season. To-day corscts arc moro SEN
sible than ever, the demonstrator
stated, for now they follow the natural
lines of the figure. Instead OF the
straight lines of tho season previous.
Formerly one adopted the masculine
lines for the figure, but now tho models
or the new corscts are essentially fenli-
nine. At a recent physicians conven-
ton in New York II was stated that
the reason women are able to stand
more extremes OF cold than men is
because OF the fact that tnn;r vital
organs arc cncased in corset Cor
sets arc considered very much more
satisfactory to-day by doctors since
tho pendulum is swinging hack once
more to the sensible, middle ground Of
feminine lines
Madame Conltlin paid charming
tribute to tho figures of Southern wo-
men. which. she said. were the most
beautiful in the world. but warned
them In the same breath against a
common tendency to Il neglect of the
care Of them. Just as good effects
may he attained. she said from tho
corset adjusted To fit the individual
figure ms one made especially for that
person The lecturer declared that She
Is here 10 trkc care of every woman's
pockthook, 90 that ii is within every
womanS mcans in Richmond to have
] or corset properly adjusted 10 her
fEnrc. Women are prone to purcha So
cors"ts that please their friends, rather
than those which NJ their own iigurcs.
hence the disco fort OF n large ma
jority of women. Another warning
given was against the tendency OF the
| ficshy woman to buy her corscts too
small. The right size makes one lool,
smaller. not larger, and the NJ of the
article is thus assured
| The waist line OF the corset this
season mus: reach the waist line OF
the body. IT is imperative now. but
this was not absolutely necessary las,
year. The models OF our grandmother,
day were compared, not unfavorably
with those OF the present period. and
all sorts OF details OF interest to IN,
we'll dressed woman woro expounhet
at length.