Health & beauty in dress from infancy to old age / by Ada S. Ballin.

  • Ada Sarah Ballin
Date:
[1893?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health & beauty in dress from infancy to old age / by Ada S. Ballin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    caused by the reflux of the blood to those parts through which its progress was previously hindered. The custom of buying ready-made stays very much at random, and becau.se they look nice, is most strongly to be condemned, as in them the figure is made to fit the corset, not the corset to fit the body, as it invariably should. When stays are worn, the petticoats should be fastened on to buttons attached to them, and the underclothing can then be very simply and easily arranged as follows : Woollen combinations worn next to the skin, stays to which the petticoat, or petticoats, are to be attached, and if the weather is cold, a woollen bodice may be added, but this is rarel)' required.