Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social EssayChatto & Windus, 1874 - 119 páginas |
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... shape , by the candid avowal of our opinion that had Phryne , when tried for her life by the Athenian Areopagitæ , even though de- fended by the orator Hyperides , * made to herself such a waist as that produced by the Corset of our ...
... shape , by the candid avowal of our opinion that had Phryne , when tried for her life by the Athenian Areopagitæ , even though de- fended by the orator Hyperides , * made to herself such a waist as that produced by the Corset of our ...
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... shape , so does the modern dame --but no sooner has she acquired the desired form than Fashion demands another , until the antique girl of many periods exhibits , or ought to exhibit , a well - turned body resembling a cork - screw ...
... shape , so does the modern dame --but no sooner has she acquired the desired form than Fashion demands another , until the antique girl of many periods exhibits , or ought to exhibit , a well - turned body resembling a cork - screw ...
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... shape of dress , or head - gear , devised for our females of rank and fashion by the arts of the " Modistes Brevetées ; " " Coif- feurs - Professeurs , " " Artistes - Capillaires " and " Cordonniers - Bottiers de Paris , " & c . , & c ...
... shape of dress , or head - gear , devised for our females of rank and fashion by the arts of the " Modistes Brevetées ; " " Coif- feurs - Professeurs , " " Artistes - Capillaires " and " Cordonniers - Bottiers de Paris , " & c . , & c ...
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... shape of body had never been possible , or known to exist before the invention of tight - lacing , and the use of stays , under the now considered more polite and euphonious French name of the " Corset ? " By having neglected to ...
... shape of body had never been possible , or known to exist before the invention of tight - lacing , and the use of stays , under the now considered more polite and euphonious French name of the " Corset ? " By having neglected to ...
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... shape as exhibited in the shop windows of your modern fashionable modistes and coiffeurs ! That such a shape would not permit the fulfil- ment of Nature's grand and beneficent design , should at least have sufficed as guide to a correct ...
... shape as exhibited in the shop windows of your modern fashionable modistes and coiffeurs ! That such a shape would not permit the fulfil- ment of Nature's grand and beneficent design , should at least have sufficed as guide to a correct ...
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Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social Essay Luke Limner (pseud. [i.e. John Leighton.]) Visualização integral - 1870 |
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