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 48
Fig. 3.—Anterior view of thorax in the natural form. Dr. Dickinsons sketches showing the changes incontour of the thorax and abdomen were made byaccurately ascertaining the normal and corset out-line, in the same subject, by blackboard tracings THE PRESSURE OF THE CORSET 39 or shadows thrown on… … Ftg. 4.—Anterior view of thorax in the corseted figure. spread widely apart, are in the compressed waistsqueezed inward and downward, until they nearlymeet in the centre. By the pressure of the corset the shoulders are 40 THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. raised, the upper lobes are forced to do the…
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