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 28
oned and taper waists results from an artificialtaste set up by long custom; but in Woo-tan-zhins case it wasclearly not so, as the small-waisted young ladies of the outerbarbarians were to him much as some new and undescribed flowers orbirds would be to the wondering naturalist who first beheld… … Persian D.vxcixg Girt. 21
Corsets · Costume
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