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.
- 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.