The Corset and the Crinoline or to choose materials appropriate

or to choose materials appropriate to the necessary dimensions of structures and components which have to withstand given loads without suffering effects deleterious to their proper functioning

New algebraic edition of the work first published by Faber & Faber

the composer's friend and mentor

This edition reprints the first edition (1894) text

and practically no living situations have been preserved

The Corset and the Crinoline or to choose materials appropriateEver since Eve's first blush, clothes have girded, graced and transformed the female physique. Fascinating and insightful, The Corset and the Crinoline is an illustrated history of clothing's attendant underpinnings especially those that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Reproduced from a rare 1868 fashion publication, each page reveals how the use of wood, whalebone, steel, hoops, and tight laces had a gripping influence on