Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-04 | Page 4 | A Threatened Industry

A THREATENED INDUSTRY The rattlesnake when tread on will strike back Not that corsetmakers are rattlesnakes snakes but they understand retaliation Here are the JEXNESMILLER reformers flooding the country with statements about the healthfulness of perfect freedom in the feminine breathing apparatus and the rightful destructiveness of tight lacing Do they realize the damage tbey are doing to the infant industry of making and sell lug corsets They prate about the virtues of their twopieced garments and their curious unmntionbles held up with gal luses but do they reflect on the harm they are Inflicting upon thousands young girls I who work in factories and support themselves them-selves and their billiaird playing brothers working on the band and gusset and seam that constitute miladys stays We trust notBut But as we have said even a rattlesnake will squirm The corsetmakers composing compos-ing an extensive business firm In order to show that young American women cal breathe whilst encased in neatlyfitting though not bulletproof armour have organized or-ganized corps of plump and pretty girls to travel from city to city in a Pullman car dressed in fashionable attire and accompanied accom-panied by liveried servants They will promenade the principal streets sit together to-gether at dinner at the crack hotels behave themselves demurely and silently advertise adver-tise SQUEEZE BULGERS lowpressure palpitating cuirass for the female thorax The reformers will have to attack corsets on a different ground than the hygienic Fashionable women will not if they can help it look in their physiques like squaws or patterns for old gentlemens undershirts The lines of geometrical beauty are not the angles but the curves