Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — A Substitute for Corsets. [ARTICLE]

A Substitute for Corsets.

A certain woman who strongly advocates a reform ir> dress declares that “corsets have filled more graves than whisky,” and a cynical wag replies that “whisky is never put on the bargain counter.” The scientific world has ever denounced the corset, but woman’s world has ever declared the impossibility of relinquishing it. Into the breach caused by this wide diversity of opinion steps the “health bodice,” which will insure a vast amount of comfort to any wearer, whether the young mother, the growing girl, or the woman who indulges in the luxury of the tea-gown. It is an idealized slip bodice made of fine white twill trimmed with embroidery, becomingly full and soft over the bust and boned below with pliable bones, which may be easily removed when laundried. A loose house gown of any form is worn more comfortably over a bodice of this sort than with a stiffly-boned corset, allowing, as it does, a more graceful play to the curves of the figure and greater freedom of motion. One is apt to take cold by removing the corset when indoors, and the health bodice will supply a substitute at once comfortable and protective.—Frank Leslie’s Weekly.