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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 126

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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… … LADY OF THE COURTOF JJUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDfcf Fig. 39. the eighteenth century were the powdered hair andthe patch-fashion. Ladies carried bits of court-plaster in patch-boxes and stopped even in thestreet to glance at the mirror in the lid of thepatch-box and replace any which might havefallen. As…

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