
Francesco Javier Gose, Gazette do Bon Ton, Les Clairs Chapeaux d'Été, 1914, originally uploaded by Gatochy.
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"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.