Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 63
fy the natural form of the body, I will quote thefarthingale of the end of Elizabeths reign. A waist solong that it seemed to belong to the knees more than tothe hips; shoulders padded so high that the undu-lating grace of the neck was wholly lost; a head madeto look ridiculously small amid the… … Fig. 2.—Queen Elizabeth. No. 95, Library, British Museum. GOOD AND BAD COSTUMES. 43 the Baptist, lying in a platter-shaped ruff. A corsetdisgracefully low and disgracefully tight, cut squareand stiffened with buckram, until every memory of thehuman form was obliterated; shoes so broad and shortthat…
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