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by W. B. Lord
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ISBN: 0486461866 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 |
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This profusely illustrated fashion history surveys the fascinating range of undergarments that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Discover how the use of wood, whalebone, steel, hoops, and tight laces had a gripping influence on shaping the figures of women from ancient Greece to 19th-century Vienna.
Reprint of The Corset and the Crinoline: A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, London, 1868.
Table of Contents for The Corset and the Crinoline: An Illustrated History
| The Corset--Origin; use amongst savage tribes and ancient people | |||||||
| The Corset according to Homer, Terentius. The Strophium of Rome, and the Mitra of Greece | |||||||
| Frankish Fashions. The Monks and the Corset. Corsets worn by Gentlemen as well as Ladies in the Thirteenth century | |||||||
| Bonnets. Headdresses. Costumes in the time of Francis I | |||||||
| Louise de Lorraine. Marie de Medici. Distended Skirts. Hair Powder | |||||||
| Louis XV. À la Watteau. Barbers. Fashions under Queen Anne | |||||||
| Stays or Corset. Louis XVI. Dress in 1776. Severe Lacing. Hogarth. French Revolution | |||||||
| The austrian Empress. Viennese Waists. London small-sized Corsets | |||||||
| No elegance without the Corset. Fashion of 1865. Short Waist and Train of 1867. Tight Corset and Short waist | |||||||
| Front-fastening Stays. Thomson's Corset. Stability of front-fastening Corset |