Twenty-first century corsetmakers have heard me bang on about this a thousand times, but I will say it again: I'm convinced that there is no such thing as a "modern body". This persistent phrase is a symbol of the popular belief that the majority of us who live in 2015 simply cannot achieve the figure of the Victorian or Edwardian woman, who supposedly underwent unimaginable torture - or years of waist training - to achieve THAT controversial figure.
The best costume of all clothing your true self - Cathy Hay
Edwardian Style
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Clare Leighton & Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (Chapter 1) - The Art of the Reprint
SpellCheck/dictionary.txt at master · sjrahimian/SpellCheck · GitHub
corsetry Archives - Cathy Hay
The Peacock Dress
Cleavage (breasts) - Wikipedia
The Blind Heroine in Cinema History: Film and the Not-Visual - Abigail Lauren Salerno, 2007
Foundation - Art Gallery of Western Australia