How To Put on Corsets - NY Times 1903 Dresmakers Convention

HOW TO PUT ON CORSETS; Practical Demonstration at Convention of Dressmakers. Stout, Little, Elderly Woman and Two Girls Posed for the Occasion of Building-Up Process.

"If you are going to make a dress that fits, one of the dressmakers said with serious earnestness at one of the meetings, "you have got to make a study of the figure of the woman, and then you can build from the flesh up". Uh - yeah! Were they all bent on having the "perfect" figure way back then? It seems so.

Did you know that the women who wore dresses that dragged in the mud and dirt were viewed as wealthy? Since they didn't mind getting their hems dirty, that meant they had a maid at home to wash them for her.

Joybell
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