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 125
r called the corset of Catherine deMedici the whalebone prison (Fig. 39). The portrait of Henry III., son of Catherine deMedici, shows that tight-lacing was practised bymen (Fig. 40). The history of France in the days which pre-ceded and followed the French Revolution is mir-rored in the dress of… … Fig. 38.—Steel Apparatus. ately followed the French Eevolution, when thegeneral licentiousness of manners and morals wasaccompanied by a corresponding indecency indress. Such a statement is a misrepresentation THE PEDIGREE OF THE CORSET. 103 of history. The French Revolution grew out ofthe…
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