The influence of dress in producing the physical decadence of American women : annual address upon obstetrics and gynecology
An 1891 address by John Harvey Kellogg to the Michigan State Medical Society in Battle Creek, arguing that corsets and tight lacing deformed the bodies of American women. Its plates are white contour outlines of torsos on solid black grounds, some doubled with dashed lines to compare before and after, offering designers stark line-on-black silhouettes and simple diagrammatic overlays.
