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 136
insist that thesetemporary freaks of fancy for loose and careless attire only call forinfinitely more rigid and severe constriction after they (as they invariablyhave done) pass away, than if the regular training of the figure hadbeen systematically carried out by the aid of corsets of ordinary… … Lady of Fashion, 1806. 131 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. 133 that in his own time he remembers it to have been said of young women,in proof of the excellence of their shape, that you might span theirwaists, and he also speaks of having seen a singing girl at the ItalianOpera whose waist was laced…
Corsets · Costume
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