I accidentally wrote an essay whilst researching for my corset project, so enjoy.
Stay tuned for the actual making adventures of said corset.

SOURCES
Arnold, Janet. “Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen’s Dresses & Their Construction C. 1860 1940”, 1982.
Bradfield, Nancy. “Costume in Detail: Women’s Dress 17301930”, 1968.
Flower, B. O. “Fashion’s Slaves.”, 1892. https://archive.org/details/fashionss...
Flower, William Henry. “Fashion in Deformity”, 1881. https://play.google.com/books/reader?...
Kim, Alexandra and Mida, Ingrid. “The Dress Detective”, 2015.
Langley Moore, Doris. “The Woman in Fashion”, 1949.
O’Followell, Ludovic. “Le corset; histoire, médecine, hygiène”, 1908. https://catalog.nyam.org/cgibin/koha...
Schwarz, G. S. “Society, physicians, and the corset”, 1979. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Steele, Valerie. “The Corset: A Cultural History”, 2003.
Thomas, Theodore Galliard. “A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women” (6th edition) 1892 https://books.google.com/books?id=3OH... (specifically the heading ‘Impracticalities of Dress’)
The Toronto Daily Mail issue dated 5th May, 1883. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...

Measurement chart taken from ‘details’ on this dress: https://www.forever21.com/us/shop/cat...

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