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 216
all and narrow at the flanges that no hold on the material is afforded,and even the most moderate kind of lacing causes them to break fromtheir hold, fall out, and leave a hole in the material of which the corsetis made, which if not immediately repaired by working round in the old-fashioned way… … The Kedresseur Corset of Vienna (Weiss). 211 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. 213 on the fabric, and retain a firm hold of it; if they do not do so, the oldworked eyelet-hole is preferable to the stud, notwithstanding the neatappearance of the stud and the apparent advantage it has over the old plan.A…
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