Word: lacing
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Thus women of dead decades admonished their maturing daughters. In due course the daughters, in spite of the inconvenient and often painful constriction of their middle parts by rigid cases, grew up and produced their kind. After marriage and until death they continued to lace. They laced up the front and down the back and along the side; they armored themselves with elastic and steel and whalebone, long, short, and medium, constructed in a thousand exacerbating shapes. Some of these women still survive. They continue to demand corsets that lace. They constitute, however, only 15% of the U. S. corset...
...famed artistic Santa Fe resident, protested in the New Republic against the despoilers of her background, said that such cultural colonies belonged to the era of William Jennings Bryan. Many readers agreed that Chautauquas like tweeds are excellent in an appropriate setting, but fail to harmonize with old Spanish lace...
...chief of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty the Queen-Empress shimmered majestically, clad in a gown of silver tissue overlaid with tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court bouquet. Therein had been embedded against ultimate emergencies a tiny mirror. The curtsying began...
...Houghton, gowned in bois de rose embroidered with dull gold sequins and having a train of rose and gold broché lace, led forward, at the first or "diplomatic" Court last week seven ladies of the diplomatic circle, and the following whose presentation had been determined by other considerations:** The Misses Alice Lee? Eva Wise?? and Mildred Tytus of Manhattan, Miss Lorrain Liggett of Boston, Miss Caroline Patterson? of Dayton, Ohio, Miss Henrietta Johnson of Paris, Mrs. Wilson Pritchett of Philadelphia and Mrs. Curtis Brown of London...
...citizenesses were presented. The guests again numbered roughly 1,000, but the circle of royalty surrounding the King and Queen was considerably reduced. Her Majesty appeared in a cream and silver gown, wore a diadem of pearls, a train of silver brocade and old point de Flandres lace...