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Dickinson: Toleration of the Corset.

restraint impossibly irksome; second, cultivation of the appre­ciation of the grace and beauty of the normal form of the body will render voluntary deformity ridiculous or pitiable; and,

FFIG.55.—Nature's corset, the anterior abdominal wall: normal wedge-shape of abdominal cavity (from Cornung): strong front muscles hold the organs or lift them up along the posterior slant.

lastly, such a knowledge of true taste in dress and understanding of real loveliness of line will be inherited and instinctive that art will replace artifice.

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