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 18
ially requisite. These, whenmade sufficiently broad to fit without undue friction, and stiff enough toprevent folding together in the act of stooping, sitting, or movingabout, at once became in effect corsets, and suggested to the mindsof the ingenious a system of cutting and fitting so as more… … THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. »3 Investigation proves to us that the taste for slender waists prevailedeven more in the Eastern nations than in those of Europe, and we findthat other means besides that of compression have been extensively-taken advantage of. Humboldt, in his personal narrative,…
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