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Few circumstances are more injurious to beauty than the constrained movement, suffused complexion, and labored respiration that betray tight-lacing. The play of intelligence, and varied emotion, which throw such a charm over the brow of youth, are impeded by whatever obstructs the flow of blood from the heart to its many organs.
Tight-lacing, I believe, was never more prevalent than at the present time, and its victims are a host. * This matter of dress, so difficult to be reformed, has a very large share in making women weak and helpless. "Of course, it cannot be denied that many young women come out of school with broken health. Do not young men also?
"You're as like my poor sister as two eggs. You don't have headaches, do you?" Dorothy said that she was not ordinarily affected in that way. "When girls have headaches it comes from tight-lacing, and not walking enough, and carrying all manner of nasty smells about with them. I know what headaches mean.
When the girths were drawn in again with an extra pull or two from the indefatigable Enriquez, I fancied that Chu Chu nevertheless secretly enjoyed it, as her sex is said to appreciate tight-lacing. She drew a deep sigh, possibly of satisfaction, turned her neck, and apparently tried to glance at her own figure Enriquez promptly withdrawing to enable her to do so easily.
These were days of splendor, when women wore gay brocades and arranged their hair in a variety of bewildering, towering, and fantastic shapes; when wide skirts were in the heyday of their fashion; when tight-lacing was in vogue; when men wore enormous wigs, and attired themselves in many colors, adorning themselves with buttons of silver large, and decorated with the initials of the wearer.
I do assure you, that, its most illustrious masters fruitful as they were in tests to try the body never invented, imagined, nor would have been able to sustain that torture of tight-lacing which the modern belle steadily inflicts without shrinking, and bears without repining sometimes to her very grave.
I've told them instantly that I'm a Christian Scientist, and a believer in the value of tight-lacing and in ghosts, an anti-vaccinator, a Fabian, a member of 'The Masculine Club, a 'spirit, a friend of Mahatmas, an intimate of the 'Rational Dress' set you know, who wear things like half inflated balloons in Piccadilly a vegetarian, a follower of Mrs.
Had this been the case in times past, we should not have had to deplore the distortions effected by tight-lacing, which destroy'd the figure and ruin'd the health of so many of the last generation. Nor should we have had the scandalous dresses alike of society and the stage.
Again, the amniotic fluid prevents injuries that might otherwise befall the child in case the mother wears her clothing too tight. Harmful as the practice of tight-lacing during pregnancy is, it does not, thanks to the presence of the amniotic fluid, result in the disfigurement of the child.
Ladies from a queen to a countess wore it coming over the chin; women of less rank, beneath. Tight-lacing dates from about the twelfth century. A short cloak, worn by both sexes, ornamented with buttons. "And, born of Thee, she may not always take Earth's accents for the oracles of God." Felicia Hemans.
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