Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote

Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded it over your thorax and abdomens for so many years and heave a sigh of relief, for your emancipation I assure you, from this moment has begun.


What to Wear (1873)


Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded ...

Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded ...

Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded ...

Burn up the corsets!... No, nor do you save the whalebones, you will never need whalebones again. Make a bonfire of the cruel steels that have lorded ...