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 77
tained at the court of France, costume andfashion became her study, and at no period of the worlds history were 72 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. its laws more tremendously exacting, and the ladies of her court, as wellas those in distinguished circles, were compelled to obey them. Withher a thick… … Corset-Cover of Steel worn in the Eeign of Queen Elizabeth (Open). at. she herself invented or introduced an extremely severe and powerfulform of the corset, known as the corps. It is thus described by atalented French writer:—This formidable corset was hardened andstiffened in every imaginable…
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