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Dickinson: Toleration of the Corset.
1057
The "good corset" of Reynolds and Lovett.
Fig. 51
1. Hour-glas corset, vicious posture & pressure.
Fig. 52
2. Straight-front-shoulders far forward of hips.
Fig. 53
Abdominal corset: good posture, low pressures
Fig. 54

FIGS. 52, 53, 54.—The three types of corset, hourglass, straight, abdominal. Vicious pressures compared with tolerable pressures; harmful forms vs. neutral; bad posture or good; pelvic inclination inviting displacement as against tilt which saves from pressures. Picturesquely unfavorable instances of the first and, second class are here selected to contrast with a good or corrective example of the third.