The Corset and the Crinoline it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations

it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects — mainly architectural

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transmission lines and antennas

and numbers in a seeming infinitude of balance

National Gothic

The Corset and the Crinoline it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrationsEver 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