The well-dressed woman- a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893) (14582789650)

Identifier: welldressedwom00ecob (find matches)
Title: The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals
Year: 1893 (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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xercise and of rational dress. The penalty of violated law does not break aloneon the head of the individual transgressor. Phy-sicians attribute to the dress of mothers, during theantenatal period, the fact that many children are de-formed from birth. There is not room for the develop-ment of the infant body. A puny, diseased physique;a brain of diminished capacity; a fretful, ignoblespirit; these arc the gifts of the corseted mother toher helpless posterity. Mother-love! the womanwho is guilty of these crimes has no conception ofthe true mother-soirit. To loosen the corset or tolay it aside for a period of nine months does notexculpate the mother. It is the habits of the wholelife, not the experience of nine mouths, which de-termine the dangers of childbearing and to a greatextent modify the life of the child, both physicallyand morally. The imperative need in overcoming these variousevils is a system of clothing which shall neitherdisplace the pelvic organs nor restrain their normal
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Thf dressmaker advises stout women to wear tightly-fitting gowns, the waistlaving man) seams. The artisl advises stout women to wear soft, heavy tex-tarefi falling in large folds which conceal the massive contours, These makelliis figure of a woman weighing 17(5 pounds seem slight. GYNECOLOGY. 98 operations, upon whose activity the strength of sup-porting muscles depends. Clothing is needed which shall permit the freeexercise of the body, for upon physical exercise de-pend its health and vitality. Every organ shares intile general strength of the body. With physicalrigor the sensory system will be held in equilibriumand the processes of nature will go on without fric-tion. An invalid is sometimes so abnormally acuteof hearing, that the ticking of a clock, unnoticed inhealth, becomes a source of pain. This explainsthat abnormal state of the body in which the ordi-nary processes of nature become the occasion ofBuffering. Freedom and exercise will also strengthen themuscles of the pelvis