INDEX.

Adventure, an, of Louise de Lorraine, [92], [97].
Alarming diseases said to be produced by wearing high-heeled shoes, [194], [195].
Ancient inhabitants of Polenqui, reduction of the waist by, [10].
An Italian duchess, the costume of, [54].
Antiquities of Egypt, researches among, [25-27]
Augsburg, the ladies of, by Hoechstetterus, [104].
Austria, Empress of, elegant figure of, [165].

Backboards and stocks, [134].
Bands (narrow), used as substitutes for corsets injurious, [213], [214].
Barbers, an army of, [110].
Beauties of Circassia, [13], [14].
Beauty, Hindoo ideas regarding, [19], [20].
Belles of India, [19], [20].
Belt (ornamented) of the Indians, [9].
Bernaise dress, [65].
Blanche, daughter of Edward III., dress of, [49].
Boarding-school discipline, letter on, [170], [171].
Boddice, bodice, or bodies, [123].
Bonnet à canon, the, [60].
Bouffant sleeves of the reign of Henry II., [65].
Bridal dress of an Israelitish lady, [28].
Buchan, writings of, [130].

Ceylon, figure-training in, [13].
Chaucer's writings, his admiration of small waists, [50].
Chinese gentleman, letter from a, [20].
Cleopatra and her jewels, [37].
Clumsy figures great drawbacks to young ladies, [182].
Conquest of the Roman Empire, [38].
Corps, the, [72], [75].
Corset, a peculiar form of, worn by some ladies of fashion in France, [190].
Corset in use among the Israelitish ladies, [28], [29].
Corset, general use of the, on the Continent for boys, [136-138].
Corset, origin of, [9].
Corset, use of by the inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, [10].
Corset-covers (steel), [75].
Corsets and high-heeled shoes denounced, [194], [195].
Corsets, custom of wearing during sleep, [150], [153].
Corsets for growing girls, remarks on, [167], [168].
Corsets of the present day contrasted with those of the olden time, [196].
Corsets, remarks on the proper application of, [214-216].
Corsets, severe form of, worn in the Elizabethan period, [75], [76].
Corsets, the small size of, made in London, [165].
Corsets, their use for youths, [138].
Corsets worn by gentlemen in 1265, [46].
Corsets worn by gentlemen of the present time, [138].
Costume à l'enfant, [98].
Costume à la Watteau, [109].
Costume of the court of Louis XVI., [124].
Costumes of the ladies of Israel, [27-29].
Cottes hardies, [41].
Crim Tartary, beautiful princesses of, [14], [19].
Crinoline among the South Sea Islanders, [143].
Crinoline and slender waists, remarks of Madame La Sante on, [143], [144].
Crinoline not a new term, [143].
Cromwell's time, tight-lacing in, [104].

De La Garde's French corsets, [209], [210].
Demon of fashion, a monkish satire, [42].
Determined tailor, a, [55].
Dress in 1776, [129].
Dress, its elegance dependent on the corset, [189].
Dresses (low) of 1713 [115].
Dunbar's Thistle and Rose, [50].

Earth-eating in Java, [13].
Eastern Archipelago, use of the corset in, [10].
Edict of the Emperor Joseph of Austria forbidding the use of stays, [66].
Edinburgh, Traditions of, anecdote from, [144].
Egyptian fashions and costumes, [25-27].
Elastic corsets condemned, [213].
Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, entry in household register of, [45], [46].
Elegance of figure highly esteemed by the Persians, [20].
Elegant costumes of the ancient Jewish ladies, [27-29].
Empress of Austria, the, portrait of, [166].
Escapade of young Louis of France, [98].
Extravagance of the Roman ladies, [36].

Families, Medici, Este, and Visconti, [54].
Family man, letter from a, [184], [185].
Farthingale, the, protest against, [110].
Fashionable promenades of Ancient Rome, [35].
Fashion and dress in 1865, [189].
Fashion in the reign of King Pepin, [41].
Fashion in 1713, [115].
Fashions in Ancient Egypt, [27-29].
Figure, general remarks on the, [182].
Figure, letter on the, [190-193].
Figure, reduction of, by the ancient inhabitants of Polenqui, [10].
Figure-training, [133], [167].
Food, abstinence from, an assistance to the corset, [144], [149].
Freaks of fashion in France and Germany, [54].
French revolutionary period, dress during, [129].
Front-fastening stays, remarks concerning, [202-204].

Gay, the writings of, [123].
Guardian, the, correspondence from, relating to the fashions of 1713, [110], [115], [116], [119], [120], [121], [122], [123].
Guardian, the, letters from, relating to low dresses and tight stays, [120-123].
Gustavus Adolphus, the officers of, [135].

Hair powder, its introduction, [97].
Henry III. of France a wearer of corsets, [76], [81].
Hindoo belles [19], [20].
Hindoo standards of beauty, [19], [20].
Hogarth, stays drawn by, [129].
Homer speaks of the corset, [30].

Improvements in corsets brought about by the advance of civilisation, [10].
Indian hunting-belt, [9], [10].
Israelitish ladies, [27-29].

Jane Shore, penance of, [46-49].
Java, earth-eating in, [13].
Jonson (Ben), his remarks on stays, [123].
Jumpers and Garibaldis, [130].

King Charles I. of England, fashions of the court of, [103].
King George III., fashion in the reign of, [135].
King James and his fondness for dress, [89], [90].
King Louis XV. of France, fashion in the reign of, [109].
Kirtle, the, [46].

Ladies of Old France, [41].
Lady Morton, diminutive waist of, [166].
Lady Triamore, daughter of the King of the Fairies, [45].
Lady's-maid, accomplishments of a, [123].
Launfal, poem of, [45].
Lawn ruffs of Queen Bess, [82], [87].
Laws, sumptuary, relating to dress, [90].
Letter from a lady, who habitually laces with extreme tightness, in praise of the practice, [182-184].
Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, [155-164].
Louis XIV. of France, court of, [98].
Louis XIV. of France, the court of, high-heeled shoes, slender waists, and fancy costumes, fashionable at, [98].
Louise de Lorraine, fête dress of, [97].
Louise de Lorraine, strange freaks of, [92], [97].

Marie d'Anjou, costume of, [54].
Marie de Medici and the costumes of her time, [97].
Marie Stuart, costume of, [159].
Medical evidence in favour of stays, [134], [135].
Medical man, letter from, in favour of moderately tight lacing, [154], [155].
Minet back corset described, [213].
Mitra used by the Grecian ladies, [33].
Mode of adding stability to the front-fastening corset, [209].
Mortality among the female sex not on the increase, [195].

Old authors, their remarks on stays, [194].

Peplus, the, [33].
Proportions of the figure and size of waist considered, [193].
Puritanism, its effect on fashion, [104].

Queen Anne, fashions during the reign of, [110].
Queen Catherine de Medici and Queen Elizabeth of England, [72], [75].
Queen Elizabeth's collection of false hair, [87], [88].
Queen newspaper, letter from, on small waists, [165-168].

Redresseur corset of Vienna, [210].
Remarks on the changes of fashion, [143].
Remarks on the flimsy materials used in making some modern corsets, [210].
Revival of the taste for small waists in Old France, [41].
Roman baths, [34], [35].
Royal standard of fashionable slenderness [72].

Scotland, small waists admired in, in olden times, [50].
Scriptural references, [29].
Selby, Mrs., the invention of, reviewed, [217].
Self-measurement, remarks concerning, [209].
Short waists and long trains, [129].
Siamese dress, the, [98].
Side-arms of the Elizabethan period, [91].
Snake-toed shoes, long sleeves, and high-heeled slippers, [59].
Starching, the art of, [82].
Statistics, extraordinary, of the corset trade, [195].
Statue, a fashionably dressed, [180].
Stays, formidable kind of, in use in 1776, [129].
Stays, the general use of the word after 1600 in England, [124].
Stays worn habitually by gentlemen, [135].
Strophium, the use of, by the ladies of Rome, [33].
Stubs, Philip, on the ruff, [87-89].
Stubs, his indignation, [88], [89].

Taper waists and figure-training in Ancient Rome, [38].
Terentius, strictures and remarks of, [30].
Thirteenth century, the small waists of, [42].
Thomson's glove-fitting corsets, [204], [205].
Tight corsets, letter in praise of, [182], [183].
Tight corsets needed for short waists, [190].
Tight-lacing revived, [130].
Toilet of a Roman lady of fashion, [34-36].

United States of America, belles of the, [153].

Venice, fashions of the ladies of, [82], [87].
Venus de Medici, waist of, contrasted with the waist of fashion, [180].
Venus, the cestus of, [30].
Vienna, slender waists the fashion in, [165].
Voluminous nether-garments of the gentlemen of the Elizabethan period, [82].

Waist, the point at which it should be formed, [193], [194].

Young Baronet, letter from [184].

Zephyrina jupon of Thomson and Co., [221].

Transcriber's Note: Original spelling/hyphenation/punctuation has been retained, but typographical errors have been corrected.