Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 404
re perhaps corsets)to make children appear straight. Costrells and gaz-zets we know not to-day. Jumps were feeble stays. Now a shape in neat staysNow a slattern in jumps. Jumps were allied to jimps, and perhaps to jupe;and I think jumper is a cousin of a word. One pairof stays I have seen is… … Robert Gibbes. The Dress of Old-time Children 317 of wood, but of a large piece of board, front andback, tightly sewed into a buckram jacket and reen-forced across at right angles and diagonally over thehips (though really there were no hip-places) withbars of whalebone and steel. The tin corsets 1…
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