Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1910 — Girls and Their Figures. [ARTICLE]

Girls and Their Figures.

Stiff corsets are unknown in France. Frencfrcorset* are always supple and bendable, and this accounts much for the ease of French figures, which are never tightened except at the waist, leaving the bust and hips quite free. If the figure is tightened in too much at the bust and hips, It gives too straight a # look to the figure and makes it stiff and uncomfortable, movement being rendered ungraceful by this stiffness. Let any girl try to lace her corset only at the waist and let her select it as soft and light as bossible, and then see if her figure be not as graceful In shape as the French figure. No tight, straight down, even lacing will ever make a pretty figure. If the corset cannot be made expressly to suit .the figure, then let it only be laced in the middle of the waist. Even then no real corset should be worn by girlß until they are well In their t^ens.