Title
Document Type
Circular
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Keywords
corsets, corestry, home economics department
Publication Date
1-1923
Publisher
Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Circular No.
180
Pages
8
Description
Most women wear corsets. Yet many do not know whether it is aiding their health or injuring it; whether they are wearing the wrong corset or the correct, what a correct corset is, how it should be worn and how to take care of it. As one approaches the age of thirty one often finds two things taking place: (1) a tendency to increase the waist measure, (2) the sagging of the abdominal muscles. The first is a natural tendency. Thirty years ago to conceal this, a corset was worn which pinched in the waist line and the internal organs were pushed above the waist line and below it. A lady’s size was supposedly measured by her waist. But if a corset is used to distort the figure or make a waist line smaller it is detrimental to the health.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Linfield, Azalea, "Correct Corsetry" (1923). SDSU Extension Circulars. 179.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/extension_circ/179