Show WA TIGHT LACINGS 1 VERN T AGAIN six changes in womans figure in forty years the fine figure of a woman was in great distress she had just beard heard it stated on ap patently good autho authority raty that tight lacing was coming into fashion again and though at fiftysix fifty six she was the proud possessor of a shapely figure still displaying excellent outlines in a comfortable straight front corset she feared that the time had passed ailien iv hen she could summon energy and enthusiasm enough to mold her shape to any fashionable standard which required much squeezing even if the wore were willing the tle too too solid flesh would undoubtedly rebel its a shame she boned ive V IF y I 1 I 1 ll 11 M she tied her corset laes to the beda ost and ran always taken so much care of ray my figure and had so much bilde in keeping up tip with the prevailing fashion in shape that it seemed only a just reward to me when zhen straight front corsets with a good substantial waist measure came into ogue just as I 1 was vas getting to an age and figure chere comfort t was almost as much of a consideration as appearance 1 I even tried to persuade myself that this comfortable fashion so happily arrived for me had come to stay fool that I 1 was now I 1 remember that no fewer than six times timer in the last forty years I 1 have completely changed the outline of my figure in accordance with the dictated of fashion fas bion not that I 1 complain of it I 1 had auth and anti enthusiasm and a very nery good figure which I 1 enjoyed displaying to the best nd advantage vantage 1 I welt nell remember reme eber when I 1 was na about sixteen how pretty the fashionable figure was nas with its neat small waist in the place where a waist NN aist ought to be how trim trini and dainty we but im afraid a little tight lacing was needed to get the desired effect next we ne had those short aisted shapes which brought the squeezing away above the natural waist line absurd enough they would look now but we thought them very feminine and charming when they were in fashion then came those long slim figures ot 01 the 80 with the inist unnaturally high the w haibt compressed as far as possible into the hips pert smart and saucy they lo looked okel and they w aare ere only acquired at the expense of a good deal of squeezing all along the line in the tim ave had a genuine hour glass figure girt tight e arounds 11 the waist and bulging ab above ove and below I 1 always thought it stupid the low bust and sudden hip effect which came in next was thought to be free and natural but was really decadent and the little girdle corset then worn orn could be drawn as tight as any other the straight front wide fashion bless it is the only one I 1 know which combines comfort and arid oh oil why cant it last 10 lo 10 mo me tight lacing at this lato late da brings only painful visions of that bugbear tho the girl aho tied her corset laces to the bed post and then ran though of course I 1 never did anything of the sort myself 1 I think as I 1 cant be fashionable ej the pillow and string style any more ill jurt adopt that hopeless hopel style of figure described as a pillow nith ith a string tied around if it new I 1 ork sun n 10 tat t P A vista of h |