The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-07-25
WOMEN DISCARD
OLD |RONS|DES
SAID THAT WOMEN OF CAPITAL
CITY ARE PLACING CORSETS
IN COLD STORAGE UNTIL
NEEDED AGAIN-USE ELIAS
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NEEDED AGAlN-USE Elias
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Columbia, July 22.-While stays,
or, to speak with perhaps brutal
frankness, corsets, are as yet in no
danger of joining the ranks of the
ancient mirth-provoking hustle, Co.
ludbia women are rapidly discarding
them, according to dealers in wom-
ems clothes and they estimate that
80 per cent have placed corsets in
cold storage for the time at least.
Few of the dealers in women's
wear thi TX the corset has passed per
mamently; they do not assert posi-
lively that it Will take it's place with
pantalets with their intriguing ruff
files nor, with the old poke bonnet
that somehow added certain win
someness to the plainest face but the
corset is slipping-not from its &C.
customed place as to the human
anatomy, but in favor with women
and girls.
The corset among-or rather
around-Columbia women is losing
its grip beyond a doubt. While it is
seen occasionally in show windows
it no longer occupies the prominent
place which once it claimed and soon
it may be missing from the windows
and from the wardrobes, too, entire
qy:
Some women, clothiers admit, will
always have recourse to the corset
or some strong and powerful substi-
tute.
The corest, however, is a preven-
tive Of ventilation; it confines heat
to the body interferes with free bodi;
ly movement and tends to cause GER
tain muscles to degenerate into
softness, muscles which were in
tended to support the body without
assistance from contraption made
of whalebone, steel and silk.
Many of the older women of Co.
lumbia, it is said, look with little fa-
vor on the drift away from the cor
set and insist on their daughters
wearing them. This insistence on the
part Of parents may explain the cry,
heard at more than one dance re-
Gently. ''Check your corset" and the
story is that corsets are 'tchecked-
out" in the dressing rooms along
with wraps, hats and other access
sories.
In some dressing rooms the stack
of corsets on the tables is said to
have been about as high as the pile
Of wraps and other paraphernalia.
'tSince women have about aban-
doned corsets," said one prominent
dealer, "they support their hose
with elastic worn slightly below the
knee, turning the stocking down over
the elastic. This custom, Of course,
leaves the knee bare, and in New
York the fashion is to rouge the
knees. do not know whether or not
the fashion Of painting knees has yet
reached this city.
Speaking of hose, it might be in
teresting to know that there is a de-
cided shortage in full fashioned hose.
With short skirts, the full fashioned
hose, q hose that fits the limb snugly,
is in good demand. 1t is next to i'm
possible for retailers to get this
hose IN good qualities; the makers
Of full fashioned hose. Other dis
tricts are working, but these districts
can only supply about 20 per cent
of the normal demand, but as the de-
mand for full fashioned hose is
about three times the normal a
shortage exists. Stocks now on hand
will soon be exhausted, / believe,
and the full fashioned hose will be-
come increasingly difficult to OBJ
tain"