Dress-reform : a series of lectures delivered in Boston, on dress as it affects the health of women.

  • Woolson, Abba Goold, 1838-1921.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Dress-reform : a series of lectures delivered in Boston, on dress as it affects the health of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    touch the body behind, below the waist, if the hoop projects, as it should, in something like a bustle, so as to make an air-chamber beneath the tops of the skirts. This closes the catalogue of improved under- garments. Very many varieties might be men- tioned, but these are the essential forms. Let me recapitulate, for the benefit of those who desire to wear the best assortment. Your first suit will be a chemiloon. In winter, it will be of flannel; in summer, of woollen gauze, silk, or cotton, but a chemiloon it will be. Above this, there may be another chemiloon of cotton, if the first suit is of a different material, and to this may be buttoned the under-skirt. But, if no under-skirt is worn, another chemiloon of colored flannel is added, or a pair of drawers made of colored woollen goods is buttoned to the chemi- loon beneath. Then comes the balmoral hunsr upon the waist, upon suspenders, or upon a sus- pended hoop. TJie Outer Dress. — The external costume forms the third and last division of the apparel. II p