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 36
andin allusion to this custom, followed among the tribes from time imme-morial, St. Paul affirms that a womans ornament is her hair. Judith braided the hair of her head and put a tire upon it; and the headdressof Pharaohs daughter, in the Canticles, is compared by Solomon toCarmel. No mention is… … 30 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. CHAPTER II. Homer the first ethnic writer who speaks of an article of dress allied to the Corset—Thecestus or girdle of Venus—Terentius, the Roman dramatist, and his remarks on thepractice of tight-lacing—The use of the strophium by the ladies of Rome, and themitra…
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