Dancers from the musical play The Dairymaids, 1906

Dancers from the musical play The Dairymaids, 1906, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

"Dancers from a musical play The Dairymaids (1906) demonstrate the fashionable S-bend shape, which was achieved by lacing women into metal or whalebone corsets. Pads placed on the hips and under the arms were used to emphasise a small, curved waist."

Scanned from "Decades of Fashion" by Harriet Worsley.