Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-12-26

like preface to remarks on the lin
itation of arms conference. but It actually
leads to opinions on the limitation Of the
corset
Do you wear a corset2
Before the great war this question could
be put only to men, otherwise It would fall
into the list of foolish questions. Then all
women-young, old, stout, slender. tall. thin,
pretty and not so pretty-wore corsets To-
day not half of them do. 1t is one of the out
standing eve are getting to hate this word)
effects Of the war. Whether or no. this re-
lief is to be added to the atrociu COM
mitted by the German horde on civilization
cannot yet be told. Another decade may be
necessary to fix its status.
But-do you wear corset?
Once this question could be answered by
the sense of sight; now another sense must
be used, for in these mo u days corset
is to be felt and not s. The change was
not established withou certain losses.
There's the perfect thirty-six," the bust
measure that every woman of every age and
condition Of embonpoint aspired to--that's
gone into the discard.
For in the production of a new silhouette
the bust is of comparatively small impor-
tance Only old fashioned men deplore its
disappearance; womci 'dmlre the "boy
boys are bustess.
What the Modern Corset Is
And Its Surprising Shape
Well, with the submergence of a bust
came the straight front cage, which begins
lower down and in its evolution went lower
and lower. At the present moment in
fashion a corset which is a corset-and Just
now the corset that isn't must wait-begns
only an inch or two above the waistline. but
makes up for deficiency. there by extrava-
gance below that line.
Put a man into this contrivance and he
would not be able either to stand up or sit
down; women find no difficulty in doing
either even in their hours of ease.
But in the adoption of an article of ap-
parel those who affect the present corset
have rejected the figure of Milo as stoutly
as ten years since they rejected that of
Medci. The pinched waist and the redun-
dant hips are not marks of beauty, but
neither is the Miletan style Of stern and
almost masculine strength
A long, 1.-THE lovelness Is the ideal. Tt has
given lines to the new corset which are sup
posed to realize this ideal. And it does the ,
work although in many instances the corset
OF the moment does 1t under tremendous
difficulties.
"Why will men either rage at US or ridi-
cule U.S." said a woman, because like sensi-
BILE creatures, we have abandoned that hor-
rible cage? For the second time in the
history Of modern fashion we are able to be
comfortable without making ourselves ridic-
ulous; we can wear just as much or as little
of what we need TO keep in or to let out and
they rage about our new freedom. I am I
one of myriad of women who delight in it /
and we can assure the pdsSe gentlemen that
despite what they say we will never go back {
into the cage" +
War work. on this side or over there with
its uniforms, its urge toward the discarding +
of all hampering garments, put the dot on G
the eye of fashionable change in corseting {
which had already begun to please women.
Gymnasium Work and Life in Open b
Helped Produce Girdle Corset 4 =
Gymnasium exercises, life in the open had v
been influencing them in the same direction 4
long before. These things joined in produc- z
ing the girdle corset. That is very generally 4
worn by young women and there are good t
many of these who have discarded even this t.
feeble stay Indeed, 1t is said that the flap s
per generation of 1921 wear no corset, not o
even girdle. nothing but their clothes, and a
very little of them at that. b
It may be true that the crusade against
the corset started in the gym" The ath- "
letic young woman who never misses her II
setting up" course of mornings, swings f,
and Indian clubs, swings between n
parallel bars bends forward and back with :,
knees held straight and rigid fifty times, a
couldn't do these exercises in a corset And N
Il follows that having done them to the ac- -
of deep. full breathing and
sense Of happy life and health, she is too 6,
wise to put on corset afterward J,
Some time ago an article was printed about =,
lhe improved physical condition Of young ~
women 1t was a widespread search that led =,
TO every part of the country and especially ~
to all the women's colleges. In sum, the -, ~
facts collected showed that girls to to-day ~ ~
ire bigger stronger, healthier than ever be- - :,
Iore and in passing 1t was also learned that .,
his larger" generation of women were not "a 20
averse to matrirnony that their added inches w "
and increased strength did not take them -
from the instinct Of mating and motherhood.
Unless these signs fail, the generation to
appear will have better chances for health y"
and success in life than the tw oor three or
which Immediately preceded it, III
And although in its QUESTIONABLE the cor "
,et subject was touched on deicately. there
we're received some figures which showed
hat the typical college woman of 1921 did oil
Tot regard the corset as an indispensable N
adjunct to a good figure. She wears only an te
lpology for one. If she has not discarded It gr
lltogether. n
The prevalence Of the golf girl, the tennis tr,
yir the swimming girl and rowing girl does to
lot mean that in the future we may expect
,ut one type that OF the heroic, for of course wi
here will always be little girls for those 6e
Who adore little girls, and big girls and big mr.
,er girls for the undersized men, who natur- sol
lily choose their wives out Of the latter of
lass. aIe
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