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 130
llowing illustration willgive an idea, depended mainly for its completeness on the form of thestays, over which the elaborately-finished body of the dress was made tofit without fold or crease, forming a sort of bodice, which in manyinstances was sewn on to the figure of the wearer after the stays… … Court Dress of the Reign of Louis XYT. 125
Corsets · Costume
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