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 56
ns, and the following remarks by Strutt showthat tight lacing was much on the increase from the thirteenth to thefourteenth centuries. He says—■ A small waist was decidedly, as we have seen before, one criterionof a beautiful form, and, generally speaking, its length was currently regu-lated by a… … Lady of Rank of the Thirteenth Century. 51 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. 53 the corset or bodice—a stiff and unnatural disguisement even in itsorigin. How far this newly-introduced form of the corset became a dis-guisement will be best judged of by a glance at the foregoing illustration,which…
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