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 209
ND THE CRINOLINE. was during this transition stage in the history of the corset that the front-fastening principle met with much condemnation at the hands of thosewho made the formation of the figure a study. From Thomson andCo., of New York, we have received a pattern of their glove-fittingcorset… … The Glove-Fitting Corset (Thomson and Co.) substance to insure both safety and sustaining power. Accidental un-fastening of the front, so common, and, to say the least of it, incon-venient, in the old form of attachment, is rendered impossible by theintroduction of a very ingenious but simple…
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