id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 53267 Lord, William Barry The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time .txt text/plain 44960 2055 70 beauties of Circassia, their slender waists and Corsets--Elegant Egypt--Fashions of the Egyptian ladies--The Corset in use among no young lady is considered the perfection of fashionable elegance dresses and long slender waists of the period--The tight-lacing corset beneath the dress, which fits the figure with extraordinary against its use--Fashion in 1713--Low dresses, tight stays, and The tight lacing and tremendously stiff corsets of the time were also A great number of ladies who, by the systematic use of the corset, what is the smallest-sized waist known among ladies of fashion. never worn tight stays who might have small waists even now if they 1867--Tight Corsets needed for short waists--Letter on the annexed illustration represents a lady dressed in the fashion of the Corset, a peculiar form of, worn by some ladies of fashion in Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, 155-164. Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, 155-164. ./cache/53267.txt ./txt/53267.txt