The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893)
Ecob, Helen Gilbert · New York, Fowler & Wells co. · leaf 119
l rectitude were forgotten. Thepoor looked with envy and hatred on the luxury ofthe rich. Love of money, frivolity, and personalvanity were besetting sins. The custom of bandag-ing originated with the courtesans. Alexis ofAthens gives a description of the bandaging usedto correct or conceal the… … Fig. 37.—Egyptian Lady. Hippocrates, a Greek physician, called the Fatherof Medicine, censured the ladies of Cos for too THE PEDIGREE OF THE CORSET. 99 tightly compressing their ribs and thus interferingwith their breathing powers; and Aristophanesridicules Cenesias for wearing busks of…
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