Mary Lincoln's Fashions
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08-24-2014, 03:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-24-2014 09:22 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: Mary Lincoln's Fashions
(08-24-2014 02:17 AM)LincolnToddFan Wrote: Fascinating Laurie, thanks. The depth and scope of your knowledge of Civil War era social customs is always astonishing to me.I totally second this!! Thanks for all the fascinating info, Laurie! Also I was just going to add the question how much a winter outfit weighed - I guessed a lot, but not 37 pounds!!! Just wearing that seems to me some sort of exercise! As for the corsets - Dorothea Dix promoted similar - she lectured young women on that corsets had a baneful effect on women's health. When one unreasonable girl said she would "rather be dead than out of fashion", Dix replied: "My dear...if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion." |
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