Tahitian Dancing Girl. Venetian Lady.
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].