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"Corset" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Elder's, where she is now staying. Can anything more disgraceful be imagined? They all console me by saying there is no one in Baton Rouge who could possibly wear my dresses without adding a considerable piece to the belt. But that is nonsense. Another pull at the corset strings would bring them easily to the size I have been reduced by nature and bones. Besides, O horror! Suppose, instead, they should let in a piece of another color? That would annihilate me! Pshaw! I do not care for the dresses, if they ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
... fact that the Forgotten Man is not infrequently a woman. I have before me a newspaper which contains five letters from corset-stitchers who complain that they cannot earn more than seventy-five cents a day with a machine, and that they have to provide the thread. The tax on the grade of thread used by them is prohibitory as to all importation, and it is the corset-stitchers who have to pay day by day ...
— What Social Classes Owe to Each Other • William Graham Sumner |
Words linked to "Corset" : fit out, garment, foundation, stays, apparel, foundation garment, clothe, tog, panty girdle, garb, girdle, habilitate, dress, raiment, enclothe |
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