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| Keywords: TheFamilyDoctorNov2 1889page146.png 146 containing articles of paramount interest to a feminine mind dainty articles of under attire were displayed on chairs and tables whilst numerous dummies displayed examples of the corsetière's art of all shapes and sizes Our meditations were however cut short by the entrance of Madame E-- herself whose elegant figure was in itself a speaking advertisement of her ability to-shall we say -improve upon nature Passing over the preliminaries we were soon in the thick of the burning subject Madame was very ready to give information and although speaking with hardly any trace of accent her flow of words immediately betrayed her as a Frenchwoman Certainly said she in answer to our question the waist is smaller than it has been for years and will be smaller still When my customers begin tight lacing they seldom give it up until they have reached an elegant slenderness Yes; I have a great many American clients As a rule I don't fancy they lace tightly till they come to Europe and see the slender figures here They are generally slight seldom given to embonpoint and one can work wonders in a very little time with a slight figure Do you make the very small sizes often I make a good many pairs in a year nineteen eighteen and seventeen inches-perhaps twenty or thirty pairs of sixteen and fifteen inches very few smaller Once now and again a pair like these pointing to a pair of blue satin corsets which we had admired and then never for an English lady That pair was made for an Austrian Comtesse-ma foi she had a figure superb magnificent I have never seen its equal The Austrians know how to lace You don't mean to say any woman ever wore a corset like that Madame Whatever size is the waist Truly Madame but I do I have made her six pairs altogether three when she was in London and three have been sent to her since in Vienna They are very small-one English foot round the waist-but they enlarge stretch you call it in wear at least one inch although they have side steels and are made so strong round the waist Ma joi the Comtesse had a figure if you like Do I think small waists are ever likely to die out P Well fashion changes but not the love of a small middle My Planche and other costume books show me small waists for centuries; as small smaller than we often see now and never was it so easy and comfortable for a lady to obtain une belle taille un fine taille as now Madame glanced at her handiwork with a look of conscious pride and readily gave us permission to make a sketch Yes I do think there is a good deal of corset wearing at night she said in reply to our query U mostly among young ladies I make night corsets for several young ladies at school but of course it is only the very tight lacers which do this I fancy the practice is growing though Our conversation was interrupted here by the entrance of one of Madame E--'s assistants who announced a particular client and our interview terminated Madame expressing voluble regrets at having to cut the conversation short so abruptly At the other four places at which we called we were able to learn nothing new but in every case the opinion seemed to be that waists were smaller and that tight lacing was undoubtedly on the increase At two places we saw corsets of fourteen inches and were told also that there was a steadily increasing sale for the smaller sizes Apparently the Rational Dress Society has much yet to accomplish O H Tightlacing The Family Doctor 1889 from O H Image TheFamilyDoctorNov2_1889page145 png PD-Art Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
