Now, that the ease of the corsetless craze has struck the elders of extreme youth, though, opulence of outline is only too discoverable. This is where figures should lie if they can and lie to their own advantage. It is both seemly and expedient for them to do so. With the present tubular effect in outside wraps, the form inside can not. afford itself a single protubuerance. With dresses flat at the back, it must be flat, too; and it can not be otherwise in front, because, should drapery be massed there often is, too much of an under-structure would be awkward. In short, no matter how slothfully contented the average woman is: without corsets, vanity should intervene with a fierce scream of warning. 4 Something in the way of gentle constraint should be applied to exuberant graces. Ladies not of the reed-like type must remember that only by extreme repression can they fit themselves decently into modern garments. Clouds and billows of drapery are all very well in pictures, but, for walking upon the earth to-day, only the perfect skeleton can permit itself entire freedom from the ghost of corset. A mere apology for one will do, but it is required +to give the desired moving mummy effect so necessary to a successful appearance. "Vogue."
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