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 81
continental invention, and theillustrations at pages 72 and 76, taken from photographs, will show that,although not precisely alike, the steel corset-covers of England were F 76 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. much in principle like those of France, and the accompanying illustrationrepresents a court… … COESET-COVEE OF STEEL WORN IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH (CLOSED). rials and closely ribbed with whalebone superseding them. This was thecorps before mentioned, and its use was by no means confined to theladies of the time, for we find the gentlemen laced in garments of thiskind to no ordinary…
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