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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 70

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not denying the necessity for some closefitting garment as a support to the body, and an im-provement to the figure ; people who refuse to wearany corset at all look very slovenly ; but we must pro-test against a machine that, pretending to be a servant WHAT STAYS COST US. 49 is, in fact, a… … FlG. io.—Fashionable form of the ribs and spine. Fig. 9.—Natural form of the ribs and spine. more pitied English wives, whose husbands (as sheinnocently thought) locked them up in a box, was notfar wrong. And all to what end ? The end of lookinglike a wasp, and losing the whole charm of graceful E…

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