Show THE TIlE CORSET WAIST MAN Paris Aug 25 2 It is strange but none the less true that Paris P ris is no longer the tiring room for women only on I Husbands and brothers are here shop shopping shopping shopping ping with an energy that formerly women only expended on n the business of getting wardrobes The explanation is not far to seek With highly highly com corn commendable commendable tact and cleverness the French manufacturers have of late years ears been turning their attention and machinery to the business of weaving wonderful hosiery handkerchiefs cravat silks underwear ar linen and that could not fail to interest and attract the masculine visitor and though London and New York tailors may be greatly in advance of their Parisian brothers the London and New Now York dandies dandles find It a n pleasant thing to patronize the Parisian haberdasher for all aU the small smal and dainty details of dress Continental men have come to regard regarda a yearly early trip to Paris as a sartorial necessity and the German Russian and French military swell is perhaps responsible for the th brisk trade in iri mens corsets that has of f late years grown grownup grownup up in the gay capital While the continentals inspired the corset traffic it is perfectly true that Englishmen and Americans have no small influence in swelling the volume of this special trade The American man used to scorn age and vanity as it might con concern concern concern cern the disintegration of his figure but of ot late years ears he has come to think that a tidy round slim waist is a acorn com commendable commendable addition to his appearance and the th mans in Paris says he has lias a book full of waist alst meas mean measures measures ures and names that hail han from the theother theother theother other side of the Atlantic My Sly wife wiCe is a well known for ladles ladies said the stay maker and when we compare notes I find that th at atm my m patrons are as fearful of or losing their good lines as hers and almost as willing to struggle for f r a renewal of the youthful contours American men be begin begin begin gin very early in life to thicken at the waist because cauSe their way of life liCe their rich food and their long office hours are conducive to a weakness of the abdominal muscles A yo ng man one year rear out of Harvard found foun he could not nt button his frock coat across his mid middle middle middie dle die so evil eU had been the effects of his office labors and he came cam to me for Cor a compressor You see in college with his hard athletic training he had hail had hada a figure to be proud of and he be want to lose ose it Fix me up un until I Ican Ican Ican I can get the leisure to take up golf and polo and then I be all right he said Well Ven we fitted him to a corset belt It consists of a broad belt made of three stout wide linen band bands whale boned in front back and at tIle the sides and lacing in the rear With that we pulled him back hack into int the limits of his college waist line and the t effect was magical S That is the stay st y that most of the American and Englishmen wear who come to us while for Cor actors tors for continentals and British officers ers and for the young gentleman in one of your American military academies we wem make m ke a regular stay lac lacing lacin lacing ing in like a womans in the rear ex extending extending extending tending high over the bOdy back and front and curved to compress compress the waist An English colonel designed this stay so we call it the Carleton and there are more men who wear it under their th ir evening dress than you know There Is a famous American actor who never neer goes on the stag without his stays in order to make his Bond street frock and evening coats fit with th exquisite nicety He used naturally to possess a waist which for his well made shoulders was wasa a wonder and now that years of flesh have come upon uon him he depends upon his strong corsets to remedy the defect A pair of handsome evening stays stas cost as as 18 to 20 for it is far more difficult to build a corset for a aman aman aman man than for a woman The womans stay sta is an at accepted fact while with a aman aman aman man we must shape shap his figure on nat natural natural natural ural youthful slender lines and have havethe havethe havethe the observer not only doubtful but really incredulous of the presence pre ence of the corset Then too wom ns lungs and feminine philosophy and ance of the th trammels of e clothes are such that she is not hard bard to fit while the men and especially the Americans Here the Frenchman threw w up his hands with a gesture gestur of despair well weH they want a l it h no suffering and resignation of ot to pay Still Stilt I am willing to confess co the men ipen are learning the force of our old French saying that one must suffer to bebeau be beati and I make ten pair P aIr of stays to today today today day where formerly I made one BEAU BRU 11 |