Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-22 | Page 8 | Local News

HE corset cover holds the same rcla- tion to a blouse as a petticoat docs SjSfSf to tho skirt frock, and it is just as vVUJl important that they arc fitted to figure, as outside garments. The set of a skirt and tho unpleasing line3 of a waist are entirely governed by the cut and fit of the garments beneath. When a corset cover is too large over the shoulders, it immediately immedi-ately gives the wearer the appearance of being round-shouldered or hump-backed. The wrinkles over the hips and about the waist are instantly observed in the lines of the skirt. Underskirts made with a pull string are very pure to give ungraceful lines to the back, where the concentrated fullness is nothing if not awkward. The garment sketched above has two distinctive distinc-tive features to recommend it. In the first place, it is well fitted and so cut as to be comfortable to the average woman. Many fleshy women and those who carry their abdomen high nre usually ehort-waistcd. Of course, the cut and fit of tho corset has much to do with unsymmctricnl lines, which may be readily relieved by the right kind I of stays, those especially made and called "self-reducing." "self-reducing." It is usually the woman with an Amazonian waist who believes that a tall girdle was just meant for people of her build. Of course, this merely tends to make matters still worse. Instead In-stead of the girdle creeping under her arms it should be made pointed, and so fitted as to extend ex-tend down over the waist line on the abodmen; thus increasing the length of the waist line materially ma-terially and giving her an entirely different figure. It ih not always aji easy matter to keep Bkirts in their proper place and to prevent the corset cover from "riding up." So to rectify matters the sketch of the waist above shows the new skirt biipporter. The waist is put on over the stays or girdle, the holes fitted to the fastenings on the corset. This tension holds the bust up place and adds materially to the length of the waist line. The underskirts may be fastened to the little lit-tle tab on the corset cover These garments arc sold in the shops, but nny woman can make such a garment for herself, buttonholing the open rings on which to fasten the corset steel.