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Dress-reform : a series of lectures delivered in Boston, on dress as it affects the health of women

Woolson, Abba Goold, 1838-1921 · 1874 · Boston : Roberts · 8 pictures

A collection of lectures on women's clothing and health, edited by Abba Goold Woolson and given in Boston in 1873, published there by Roberts in 1874 for an audience of American women and physicians. Line engravings show full-length female figures in Empire gowns, loose robes, bustled walking dress and labeled national costume, usable as clean contour figure drawings and costume silhouettes.

Clothing and dress · Women -- Health and hygiene

Internet Archive · Gerstein Library, University of Toronto · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · More from this library