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 45
en written about the purely natural and statuesque formsof the Roman matrons. On the conquest of the Roman Empire by thewild and savage Hunnish tribes, fashion, art, taste, literature, and civilisa-tion were swept ruthlessly away, and a long, weird night of mentaldarkness may be said to have…
Corsets · Costume
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