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Title: The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ecob, Helen Gilbert
Subjects: Women's clothing Women
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of dress is doing as much to destroy the raceas is man by alcoholism. Another physician, Dr.Ellis, says: The practice of light lacing has done.more within the last century toward the physicaldeterioration of civilized man than has war, pesti-lence, ;ind famine combined. Dr. Kitchen, ofNew York, says : This appliance kills slowly, and,to the unlearned, imperceptibly ; nevertheless thecorsel on a child is a slow murder of the child, and,if she be of a phthisical or consumptive tendency,it is not so very slow murder either. . . . Everywoman who has grown up in a corset, no matterhow loosely worn, is deformed. Miss Frances Willard says : But womans ever-lasting befrilled, bedizened, and bedraggled styleof dress is to-day doing more harm to childrenunborn, horn and dying, than all other causes thatcompel public attention. With ligatured lungs andliver as our past inheritance and present slavery,the wonder is that such small heads can carry allwe know ! Niggardly waists and niggardly brains
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This is the most Bimple formdatura is m princess gown, ameffect may be simple or ornate a< if house-dreethe draper)iording totn i whichfalls r e can offer. The foun-in the shoulders. The;ind decoration i CAUSES OF ILL-HEALTH. 29 go together. The emancipation of one will alwayskeep pace with the other ; a ligature around thevital organs at the smallest diameter of the woman-ly figure means an impoverished blood supply inthe brain, and may explain why women screamwhen they see a mouse, and why they are so terri-bly afraid of a term which should be their glory,as it is that of their brothers, viz., strong-minded. Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas says that improprietiesof dress are one of the factors which depreciatewomans powers of endurance and capacity for re-sisting disease. He points out the various organicdiseases which result from the strictures of dressand the exposure which is entailed by the inade-quate clothing of the lower extremities. Dr. Emmet says : At the very dawn of woman-hood

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