Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1911 — LARGER WAISTS IN STYLE [ARTICLE]

LARGER WAISTS IN STYLE

Pans Made the Law and Everyone Has Followed It Joyously. Most certainly very small waists are not today a necessity In beauty culture; Indeed, some classic statues dressed in Parisian modes might pass muster now; twenty-six inches is none too big, even „ twenty-eight inches. Paris made the law. and every one followed it joyously; even the stays, pull as you may, will not give you a small waist. It is even rumored that Frenchwomen pad the front of the figure, to cause it to appear straight It is not the waist 7 we have to reduce, hut the hips; the one desideratum is to keep them to the straight line. Catherine de Medici, when she introduced the bone corset, made thirteen inches the right size for the waist, and many a woman at court sacrificed her life to attain it. There is no necessity to have long bones to keep in the hips; coutil or brocade may be cut so as to confine the dimensions. Digestive organs are now left full and easy play; but we do not want to get too tubelike, which seems the special danger of the moment