Is it just me or do the two corsets - the horrible one and the delightful one - look exactly the same?
They both look rather awful, actually.
Jennie June (real name: Jane Cunningham Croly) was a English-born American journalist, editor and writer who organized the first women's clubs in America. She was a journalism professor at Rutgers Women's College (later Rutgers University).
Annie Jenness Miller wrote and lectured on the subject of dress reform, and edited Dress magazine; more information about her is here at Vintage Connection.
This 1899 ad is from the NYPL Digital Gallery.
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They do look the exactly the same. Must have more to do with bending over whilst taking it off. Silly advertisers.
Hubby saw one at the renaissance Faire and said you can buy one of those! I just wanted to hit him. I told him I just could not see pouring my body into that, however I could see how he would love the outcome,LOL.
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They are pretty much exactly the same. I don't know how women of that time put up with all that discomfort! I am uncomfortable if a shirt I'm wearing is too tight!
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