INDEX.

• Adventure, an, of Louise de Lorraine, 92, 97.
• Alarming diseases said to be produced by wearing high-heeled shoes, 194, 195.
• Ancient inhabitants of Polenqui, reduction of the waist by, 10.
• An Italian duchess, the costume of, 54.
• Antiquities of Egypt, researches among, 25-27
• Augsburg, the ladies of, by Hoechstetterus, 104.
• Austria, Empress of, elegant figure of, 165.

• Backboards and stocks, 134.
• Bands (narrow), used as substitutes for corsets injurious, 213, 214.
• Barbers, an army of, 110.
• Beauties of Circassia, 13, 14.
• Beauty, Hindoo ideas regarding, 19, 20.
• Belles of India, 19, 20.
• Belt (ornamented) of the Indians, 9.
• Bernaise dress, 65.
• Blanche, daughter of Edward III., dress of, 49.
• Boarding-school discipline, letter on, 170, 171.
• Boddice, bodice, or bodies, 123.
• Bonnet à canon, the, 60.
• Bouffant sleeves of the reign of Henry II., 65.
• Bridal dress of an Israelitish lady, 28.
• Buchan, writings of, 130.

• Ceylon, figure-training in, 13.
• Chaucer's writings, his admiration of small waists, 50.
• Chinese gentleman, letter from a, 20.
• Cleopatra and her jewels, 37.
• Clumsy figures great drawbacks to young ladies, 182.
• Conquest of the Roman Empire, 38.
• Corps, the, 72, 75.
• Corset, a peculiar form of, worn by some ladies of fashion in France, 190.
• Corset in use among the Israelitish ladies, 28, 29.
• Corset, general use of the, on the Continent for boys, 136-138.
• Corset, origin of, 9.
• Corset, use of by the inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, 10.
• Corset-covers (steel), 75.
• Corsets and high-heeled shoes denounced, 194, 195.
• Corsets, custom of wearing during sleep, 150, 153.
• Corsets for growing girls, remarks on, 167, 168.
• Corsets of the present day contrasted with those of the olden time, 196.
• Corsets, remarks on the proper application of, 214-216.
• Corsets, severe form of, worn in the Elizabethan period, 75, 76.
• Corsets, the small size of, made in London, 165.
• Corsets, their use for youths, 138.
• Corsets worn by gentlemen in 1265, 46.
• Corsets worn by gentlemen of the present time, 138.
• Costume à l'enfant, 98.
• Costume à la Watteau, 109.
• Costume of the court of Louis XVI., 124.
• Costumes of the ladies of Israel, 27-29.
• Cottes hardies, 41.
• Crim Tartary, beautiful princesses of, 14, 19.
• Crinoline among the South Sea Islanders, 143.
• Crinoline and slender waists, remarks of Madame La Sante on, 143, 144.
• Crinoline not a new term, 143.
• Cromwell's time, tight-lacing in, 104.

• De La Garde's French corsets, 209, 210.
• Demon of fashion, a monkish satire, 42.
• Determined tailor, a, 55.
• Dress in 1776, 129.
• Dress, its elegance dependent on the corset, 189.
• Dresses (low) of 1713 115.
• Dunbar's Thistle and Rose, 50.

• Earth-eating in Java, 13.
• Eastern Archipelago, use of the corset in, 10.
• Edict of the Emperor Joseph of Austria forbidding the use of stays, 66.
• Edinburgh, Traditions of, anecdote from, 144.
• Egyptian fashions and costumes, 25-27.
• Elastic corsets condemned, 213.
• Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, entry in household register of, 45, 46.
• Elegance of figure highly esteemed by the Persians, 20.
• Elegant costumes of the ancient Jewish ladies, 27-29.
• Empress of Austria, the, portrait of, 166.
• Escapade of young Louis of France, 98.
• Extravagance of the Roman ladies, 36.

• Families, Medici, Este, and Visconti, 54.
• Family man, letter from a, 184, 185.
• Farthingale, the, protest against, 110.
• Fashionable promenades of Ancient Rome, 35.
• Fashion and dress in 1865, 189.
• Fashion in the reign of King Pepin, 41.
• Fashion in 1713, 115.
• Fashions in Ancient Egypt, 27-29.
• Figure, general remarks on the, 182.
• Figure, letter on the, 190-193.
• Figure, reduction of, by the ancient inhabitants of Polenqui, 10.
• Figure-training, 133, 167.
• Food, abstinence from, an assistance to the corset, 144, 149.
• Freaks of fashion in France and Germany, 54.
• French revolutionary period, dress during, 129.
• Front-fastening stays, remarks concerning, 202-204.

• Gay, the writings of, 123.
• Guardian, the, correspondence from, relating to the fashions of 1713, 110, 115, 116, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123.
• Guardian, the, letters from, relating to low dresses and tight stays, 120-123.
• Gustavus Adolphus, the officers of, 135.

• Hair powder, its introduction, 97.
• Henry III. of France a wearer of corsets, 76, 81.
• Hindoo belles 19, 20.
• Hindoo standards of beauty, 19, 20.
• Hogarth, stays drawn by, 129.
• Homer speaks of the corset, 30.

• Improvements in corsets brought about by the advance of civilisation, 10.
• Indian hunting-belt, 9, 10.
• Israelitish ladies, 27-29.

• Jane Shore, penance of, 46-49.
• Java, earth-eating in, 13.
• Jonson (Ben), his remarks on stays, 123.
• Jumpers and Garibaldis, 130.

• King Charles I. of England, fashions of the court of, 103.
• King George III., fashion in the reign of, 135.
• King James and his fondness for dress, 89, 90.
• King Louis XV. of France, fashion in the reign of, 109.
• Kirtle, the, 46.

• Ladies of Old France, 41.
• Lady Morton, diminutive waist of, 166.
• Lady Triamore, daughter of the King of the Fairies, 45.
• Lady's-maid, accomplishments of a, 123.
• Launfal, poem of, 45.
• Lawn ruffs of Queen Bess, 82, 87.
• Laws, sumptuary, relating to dress, 90.
• Letter from a lady, who habitually laces with extreme tightness, in praise of the practice, 182-184.
• Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, 155-164.
• Louis XIV. of France, court of, 98.
• Louis XIV. of France, the court of, high-heeled shoes, slender waists, and fancy costumes, fashionable at, 98.
• Louise de Lorraine, fête dress of, 97.
• Louise de Lorraine, strange freaks of, 92, 97.

• Marie d'Anjou, costume of, 54.
• Marie de Medici and the costumes of her time, 97.
• Marie Stuart, costume of, 159.
• Medical evidence in favour of stays, 134, 135.
• Medical man, letter from, in favour of moderately tight lacing, 154, 155.
• Minet back corset described, 213.
• Mitra used by the Grecian ladies, 33.
• Mode of adding stability to the front-fastening corset, 209.
• Mortality among the female sex not on the increase, 195.

• Old authors, their remarks on stays, 194.

• Peplus, the, 33.
• Proportions of the figure and size of waist considered, 193.
• Puritanism, its effect on fashion, 104.

• Queen Anne, fashions during the reign of, 110.
• Queen Catherine de Medici and Queen Elizabeth of England, 72, 75.
• Queen Elizabeth's collection of false hair, 87, 88.
• Queen newspaper, letter from, on small waists, 165-168.

• Redresseur corset of Vienna, 210.
• Remarks on the changes of fashion, 143.
• Remarks on the flimsy materials used in making some modern corsets, 210.
• Revival of the taste for small waists in Old France, 41.
• Roman baths, 34, 35.
• Royal standard of fashionable slenderness 72.

• Scotland, small waists admired in, in olden times, 50.
• Scriptural references, 29.
• Selby, Mrs., the invention of, reviewed, 217.
• Self-measurement, remarks concerning, 209.
• Short waists and long trains, 129.
• Siamese dress, the, 98.
• Side-arms of the Elizabethan period, 91.
• Snake-toed shoes, long sleeves, and high-heeled slippers, 59.
• Starching, the art of, 82.
• Statistics, extraordinary, of the corset trade, 195.
• Statue, a fashionably dressed, 180.
• Stays, formidable kind of, in use in 1776, 129.
• Stays, the general use of the word after 1600 in England, 124.
• Stays worn habitually by gentlemen, 135.
• Strophium, the use of, by the ladies of Rome, 33.
• Stubs, Philip, on the ruff, 87-89.
• Stubs, his indignation, 88, 89.

• Taper waists and figure-training in Ancient Rome, 38.
• Terentius, strictures and remarks of, 30.
• Thirteenth century, the small waists of, 42.
• Thomson's glove-fitting corsets, 204, 205.
• Tight corsets, letter in praise of, 182, 183.
• Tight corsets needed for short waists, 190.
• Tight-lacing revived, 130.
• Toilet of a Roman lady of fashion, 34-36.

• United States of America, belles of the, 153.

• Venice, fashions of the ladies of, 82, 87.
• Venus de Medici, waist of, contrasted with the waist of fashion, 180.
• Venus, the cestus of, 30.
• Vienna, slender waists the fashion in, 165.
• Voluminous nether-garments of the gentlemen of the Elizabethan period, 82.

• Waist, the point at which it should be formed, 193, 194.

• Young Baronet, letter from 184.

• Zephyrina jupon of Thomson and Co., 221.

Transcriber's Note: Original spelling/hyphenation/punctuation has been retained, but typographical errors have been corrected.