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Show Worth on Tight Lacing. In his great series of articles on Individuality In-dividuality in Dress, now appearing in Harper's Bazar. Worth, the world's greatest dressmaker, says some pregnant preg-nant things about tight lacing. Here is one of them. "In no case do I recommend tight lacing, whether for the short, the lean, the young or the old. Is is an abomination; abomina-tion; and to the Americans, who so sensibly encouraged the wearing of the straight-fronted corset, which is today the most universally popular of stays, I offer sincere congratulations. "Years ago.when the type of corset that bends inward at the center of the waist line was In fashion, causing the figure below the belt to protrude in the ugliest way. besides giving the wearer most uncomfortable sensations. I went to a famous corsetiere here in Paris and asked her why she did not introduce a straight-fronted corset. 'Wilt you please mind your own business, M. Worth, was her retort, 'and leave me to mind mine?" "But even then, determined that my own daughter's figure should not be spoiled, nor her health and comfort jeopardized while yet little more than a child, I modeled her corsets for her myself my-self and made them straight-fronted. It is to this corset, cut on common sense principles, and with the enlightenment of a knowledge of anatomv to aid the modeler, that I attribute so much of the grace and suppleness of the middle-aged middle-aged women of the . present day." |