A Servant Girl dressed in four absurdities of fashion—a Tight
Corset, Tight High-heeled Boots, a Bustle Improver, and
Fifteen-button Gloves.
She appears very conceited, but with her tight-lacing must feel
very uncomfortable and unwell, and wall sensible people must feel
that she is very silly, and with her absurd boots her feet must
pain her almost as much as the Chinese woman's shown above [right]
pained her when first compressed.
European Woman with her Waist Fashionably Tightened to 15 inches.
Chinese Woman with her Feet Fashionably Compressed to 3 inches.
Long-Nailed Fashion of an Annamese Noble, and a Marquesian Chief.
Chinese Ladies' Fashionable Pinched Feet and Shoes, shewing also
deplorable foolishness in China.
Old English Fashions, showing our ancestors were as foolish as we
are.
Costume of an Ancient Greek Youth, very easy, elegant and suitable
for a Lady's Reform Dress.
This is a much more sensible dress than the one opposite it [servant
girl] and the two below it—look at them.
Crinoline, 1859. The Dog has got through all right, but how will the lady manage.
Crinoline, 1859. Coach licensed to carry four. The coachman and the horse are both wondering how it can be done.
