The well-dressed woman- a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1892) (14595887070)

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Title: The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ecob, Helen Gilbert
Subjects: Women's clothing Women
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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Fig. 38.—Steel Apparatus. ately followed the French Revolution, 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 selfishness and extravagance of the privilegedclasses. There had been years of wanton splendorin her palaces, and the price was an impoverishedand discontented people. Among the frivolities of
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LADY iCOURTOFJPUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDICI 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 the climax approached, gayety andfrivolity increased. Every one was dressed as if 104 TEE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. for a fancy ball that was never to leave off. Theexecutioner was required to officiate at the gallows ).—Henry III. and wheel frizzled, powdered, in a gold-lace coat,pumps, and white silk stockings. (Carlyle.) The THE PEDIGREE OF THE CORSET. 105 Medici corset was still worn. Rousseau said of thetight dress of this period : I cannot but think thatthis abuse, pushed in England to an inconceivablepoint, will in the end lead to the degeneracy of therace. When the reaction against centuries of civil andecclesiastical oppression began to be felt, the de-sire for liberty showed itself even in d