The corset and the crinoline : a book of modes and costumes from remote periods to the present time (1868)
Lord, William Barry · London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler · leaf 122
quaint that we cannot resist giving the reader the benefit of them. Thehappy vein of philosophy possessed by the writer of the following lettermust have made the world a mere pleasure-garden, through which hewandered at his own sweet will, king of the universe :— Guardian, Friday, May Stb,… … Low Bodies and Curtailed Crinoline. THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. I 19 property in the gay part of all the gilt chariots that I meet, which Iregard as amusements designed to delight the eye and the imaginationof those kind people who sit in them gaily attired only to please me. Ihave a real and…
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