Dress, and how to improve it
A dress-reform manual by Frances Stuart Parker, published in Chicago in 1897 for American women rethinking corseted fashion and home dressmaking. Halftone photographs show finished gowns on headless dressmakers' forms against plain dark backdrops — leg-o'-mutton sleeves, high collars, yoke and bodice construction — useful for period silhouettes, garment-detail reference, and stark figure-on-ground compositions.
