It came about through Mrs. Dawes mentioning that her aunt, who died from eating tinned lobster, used to work in a corset shop in Wych Street.
Sylvie had, however, touched thecorset and felt the papers.
Releasing the girl's wrist she sprang upon the corsetlike a tiger on its prey, and showed it to Pierrette with a smile,--the smile of an Iroquois over his victim before he scalps him.
Pierrette, inspired by a sense of danger, sewed the letters into her corset and covered them with calico.
The girl looked wise as though she had been there herself, found that it was a twenty-two inch corset the boy wanted, and he went home and wrote a note and sent it with the corset to the girl.
The body is enclosed in a kind of corset (pemákak) passing above the bosom and under the arms, and confining the waist in the narrowest possible limits.
It frequently happens, that the delicate corset by falling too low, exposes more of the body than is considered correct.
But she dismissed the suspicion, because she passionately desired an 'Incroyable' corset at twelve and eleven, and she feared lest the corsets might have vanished as strangely as the stoles.
There was no dissatisfaction in the corset department.
Yet I dare say there are women who would gladly be poured into a new corset every day of their lives.
I feel that now I could join a woman's sewing circle and talk with as much authority and wisdom as the most veteraned corset wearer present.
The initial idea of thecorset is in a way artistic.
The latest corset advertisement ranks ethnologically with the earliest Egyptian hieroglyph, the Aztec inscriptions, and races far behind them.
One-third of the lungs lie below the point of beginning corset pressure, so that with tight corsets this amount of lung substance must be more or less useless.
The original object of the corset was to give greater prominence to the hips and abdomen.
And so the corset really defeats the object for which it was put on-- that of giving the girl a good figure and enhancing her beauty.
But when the corset splint is applied to the body of the young girl, it supplants the functions of the abdominal and back muscles, which is to hold the trunk erect, and these muscles gradually grow weak and waste.
The corset prevents the proper development of the abdominal muscles, which play so important a role in the expulsion of the child from the womb, as well as in the proper growth and development of the fetus itself.
He invented a corset with holes in it for ventilation to be worn for various torsions of the spine and other spinal deformities.
Pare at the end of the century used a corset made of very thin perforated iron plates which he insisted should be well padded.
With the former she advertised the latest thing in corsets, and with the latter she fitted the said corset on to figures less graceful than her own.
He was at his best when describing his most successful corset fitter, a damsel blessed apparently both with a slim waist and a strong arm.
From the front of the corset hung two elastic suspenders as yet awaiting their prey.
Then there was the camisole that concealed the corset and had to be "pinned" in with safety pins.
This she does by first putting on a corset made especially for the purpose, with broad, strong bands which pass over the shoulders.
Between her legs she arranges a large bag or receptacle made of some extremely strong cloth, which is suspended from the corset by a stout band running around the waist.
Ain't I glad I don' have to wear nocorset when I puts on long pants?
She knelt to kiss me innocently enough, and I, by a sudden impulse, ran my hand between her bare neck and her corset as far as I could reach.
It remains the most reasonable view that the foot bandage must be regarded as strictly analogous to the waist bandage or corset which also tends to produce deformity of the constricted region.
At the same time, so closely meshed and firmly woven that with reasonable wear every Diana corset is guaranteed to keep its good shape and style or you will receive a new corsetwithout charge.
It does not say, "We have just the corset for you stout women"--but that is what it means.
You'll find it easy to wear the new long straight style gowns if you wear a Diana corset in the model made for your style of figure.
The handsomest gown money will buy can't make you look well unless your corset is the correct shape.
The result was that the princess gown took the lines of the corset and fitted Mrs. Thompson perfectly.
This only goes to prove that with a good corset any gown will drape right and take the lines of the corset.
A woman patient told me once that the moral support, afforded by a well-fitting corset was inconceivable to the mind of a mere man.
Women who have long depended upon a corset for support will doubtless find it uncomfortable, or even dangerous, to lay upon their enfeebled muscles alone the task of upholding their bodies.
Pauline Furlong," in a recent issue of a widely circulated journal, begs that the corset and the closely fitting costume of the present be discarded, and replaced by something light, loose and hung entirely from the shoulders.
It is from the conjunction of these triple bands that the modern corset has been evolved, as it is worn by women of every class throughout civilized Europe to-day.
His description of the original corset of Greece and Rome will show to what ancient form of stay the modern corset may be traced.
It is said of the time of Henry III of France that the corset was no longer the simple basquine that was inoffensive enough at first.
The main and most useful portion of the corset was a zone, or loin band.
This she uses to wrap around the neck of the milkmaid to prevent her getting away before she has a chance to kick her health corset off and upset the milk.
