The controversy was contemporary with the time that corsets were popular in society.
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The controversy was contemporary with the time that corsets were popular in society.
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Corset controversy has a great desire for them all to have slim, pretty figures,.
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Corset controversy was fifteen years of age, and had evidently “run wild”.
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Corset controversy had never worn corsets, and her figure was very clumsy, her waist actually measuring 25 inches.
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Corset controversy's mother was desirous that it be reduced to sixteen inches.
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Corset controversy has a splendid figure; I wish mine were only as good.
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Corset controversy told Agnes V— that she hardly had any need to lace at all, now; she was tightened when only twelve.
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Corset controversy's waist had, during the four years she had been at school, been reduced to such absurdly small dimension that I could easily have clasped it with my two hands.
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Corset controversy then told me how the most merciless system of tight-lacing was the rule of the establishment, and how she and her forty or fifty fellow-pupils had been daily imprisoned in vices of whalebone drawn tight by the muscular arms of sturdy waiting-maids, till the fashionable standard of tenuity was attained.
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Corset controversy's solution agreed with that of the young lady, commencing the practice at an early age.
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Corset controversy only complains that she is no longer a 'romping girl.
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Corset controversy always laced tight, but never below 19 in till she married a year ago.
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Corset controversy changed in the early 20th century when the world of fashion circled back to styles reminiscent of the Empire silhouette.
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Corset controversy replaced the corset with the hobble skirt, which, while equally restrictive, was different and thus readily adopted in an era eager for change.
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