The New Corsets are Washable
' An amazing number of women believe that washing a corset is not only extremely difficult, but practically fatal to it. This is wrong. Washing is now easy, and actually pfolongs the life of the corset. It is-perspiration and dirt that destroy the fibres. When corsets were worn with a vest beneath to keep them clean, washing neant removing the hones and ageing the fahric. Bnt to-day, to meet the pas•ion for smoothness, corsets are worn next the skin, and, are therefore made washable.
r The modern Berlei takes to soap and water just like lingerie. Even those satins and failles with inwoven stretch are comjjletely washable. In fact; washing actually improves modem corsets — it restores the shape to the fabric and puts new life into the fibres. There is only one don't. Don't iron tliem with a hot iron or dry them by artificial heat or the rubber will quickly perish. And never take the bones out — all of the hones in. a corset by any good maker these days are entjrely roatleM.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 2, 18 January 1937, Page 14
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