...then, as now, the concerns of upper-class women received a disproportionate amount of attention, both medically and culturally. p. 41
"Worse than crime--it is folly," they concluded, "for beauty is destroyed by the process which is intended to increase it." ...that's about one and a half complaints as to the impact of corseting on women's health, and three complaints that it makes them hideous. p. 42
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