The Corset and the Crinoline
A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time
William Barry Lord
The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time
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Profusely illustrated fashion history examines 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.

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English
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THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
INDEX.
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