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)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes

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 ...