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Gone were the days when ladies thought it permissible to bare their bosoms in
the public street , to walk about bare - throated , even in winter . Ruffs would have
been an obvious absurdity above the low - cut gowns of the early years of the ...
Gone were the days when ladies thought it permissible to bare their bosoms in
the public street , to walk about bare - throated , even in winter . Ruffs would have
been an obvious absurdity above the low - cut gowns of the early years of the ...
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But it is not the purpose of the present volume to embark upon the lives and
stories of any of those notorious ladies who set the tone of an entire society while
Napoleon III was still Emperor of the French . 1 The extraordinary vogue and the
...
But it is not the purpose of the present volume to embark upon the lives and
stories of any of those notorious ladies who set the tone of an entire society while
Napoleon III was still Emperor of the French . 1 The extraordinary vogue and the
...
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In 1876 we begin to find in Punch jokes about ladies whose skirts are so tight that
they can neither sit down nor climb stairs , and this in spite of the apparently large
amount of stuff of which the skirt is made . Incidentally it is amusing to note that ...
In 1876 we begin to find in Punch jokes about ladies whose skirts are so tight that
they can neither sit down nor climb stairs , and this in spite of the apparently large
amount of stuff of which the skirt is made . Incidentally it is amusing to note that ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I BACK NATURE AND THE GREEKS | 13 |
PRUDERY AND ROMANTICISM | 26 |
SENTIMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 38 |
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