Jule Lindauer

“ Many women however need around the hips a more powerful support than the one provided by a corset with ordinary lacing. It is to fulfil this purpose that the special lacing forming the object of this invention has been provided for. This very simple lacing does not change at all the outward appearance of the corset and allows of squeezing and reducing as much as may be desired, the hips, the abdomen and the breeches, though it enables to tighten at will slightly or strongly the waist and the breast. ”

“ With the extreme end of one of the sections i of the lace used, a section lacing is made between the lower part of the ordinary band gof one side and the additional band a of the other side, leaving at about the middle portion a lace loop which allows the lacing to be fastened; this operation is repeated with the extreme end of the other section k of the lace and with the symmetrical eyelet bands; an ordinary simple lacing is then made above the level of the additional bands a either by continuing to employ the lower face or with a separate lace. ”

“ These different articles presented generally a more or less objectionable appearance, and it was only by compulsion that the women would employ such a complicated object, often ungraceful, bulky, heavy and difficult to place. ”