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...stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hoyden on Olympus | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...Waistlines even higher and smaller, causing corsetmen to take heart along with ostrich farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Empress Eugenie Again | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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