LILIAN RUSSELL WEARS CORSETS COSTING £1300

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 13

LILIAN RUSSELL WEARS CORSETS COSTING £1300

Maclanio Binner wiites in Ihe New Vork Times that corset wardrobes for ladies who know their clothes include four day-time garments at £15 each, six evening, gowns, at £40 each, two iace-trimuTed pantie girdles l'or just lounging ronnd at honie in and three all-elastie panties each at £15. Ladies who posmss these garinents or equivalents are coi.sidcred fairly well corseted. One garment alone, niade by Madame JBinuer for Lilian Russell, co&t £1300. Ths garment itseif only cost £200 but the diamoird ttudded suspentlers rau the bili up a bit--a mere £1100. Of course_ this is interesting to read, but so uttefly hopeless for New Zealand women, where tvery rhilling. has its placo in the halanei'ig of the budget. But Ihere is just tuo similarity hctween the millionaire' • ideas :>n eorsets and ours, and that is, that every utll-dresseil woman sho lirl corset +o mPet the oeeasion. An average New Zealancl wonian's corset wardrobe should consist ot one aH-in-one eontrolette for evening, a firm lightlyboned garment for everyday veart . strict waistline corset for formal miloreds and a ccinfy extra light t-lastic girdle l'or go'i and tennis. Of course, •■11 these in one hreath does sound . ht extravagant, doesn:t it? But really, wlien you ccnsider how niuch longsr each pair lasfs it will be far cheape" zn the lcng run So don't stint on ^our ecrset wardrcbe; remember, they ;ri tho foundation that makes or mars even your most lovely gown.