- 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].
- 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.