Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1918 — “CORSETS ARE A NECESSITY” [ARTICLE]

“CORSETS ARE A NECESSITY”

Apparel Included in Essential Class and No Longer Sold With Fashion and Style Uppermost Thought. The effect of the world war is making itself felt in the currents of our everyday life. Commercial, civic, social and personal activities have all, to a more or less degree, been subjected to a certain process of readjustment in our effort to win this struggle for a peace that will embrace and succor the world. Therefore, writes Edith M. Burtis, in the People’s Home Journal, It has become necessary for women’s as well as men’s apparel to conform to government rulings, so that the necessary conservation of material and labor shall be maintained, and all unnecessary waste eliminated. There has been considerable discussion about essentials and nonessentials, and women’s corsets have been considered in their relation to this matter. Fortunately for women, and for the results expected from them in their taking up the work of men, corsets are included in the essential class. If a reverse decision bad been reached, I am convinced It would not only have resulted In suffering, ill-health and