Julius Lindauer

“ The objection to ordinary high corsets is that they are fitted with long steel busks, which extend up over a good part of the sternum, (or front part of the thorax,) thereby causing the corset to encircle the thoracic cage and exercise an injurious pressure on the organs contained therein, because they do not permit the chest to expand in the manner in which it expands when no corset is worn. In order to remove this inconvenience, extreme low corsets which cover the trunk from below the bust down only are often worn ”

“ In order to allow of the corset supporting the bust well and having the pit of the stomach and the upper front part of the bust completely uncovered, the whalebones or steels are arranged at an angle, as shown at a, in such a manner as to bring the bust forward and to give the necessary support without in any way restraining the respiratory movements. ”