A badly fitting corset destroys the effect of the most elegant toilet.
Corsets are quite short and quite long to suit the fancy of the wearer.
There is scarcely any more tendency to the return of elaborate bustles than last year. After generations of wearing corsets, Western women seemed to have little doubt that the contraption was a necessary part of life. Nonetheless, Lady Mary Wortley Montague reported that women from other parts of the world hardly agreed with this conclusion. When I was first introduced to one, the lady of the house came to undress me - another high compliment they pay to strangers. Come hither, and see how cruelly the poor English ladies are used by their husbands.