tied-backs

Updated: June 22, 2025

Then came the inglorious days of the "tied-backs," a style of dress most unbecoming to the figure, and now happily no more. This preposterous fashion had, no doubt, its influence on the manners of the age. Better far, if women would parade their charms, the courtly dresses of those beauties of Bird-cage Walk, by St.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages