Comments on: Good Sense

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:18:07 +0000

That’s begging to be made into a period-style ‘Has A Posse’

By: Xgirl

Xgirl — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:40:54 +0000

My gloves! Heavens to Betsy, how can I go shopping without my gloves?

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:12:02 +0000

The kid is really admirably chunky and would be regarded as fat today. And she doesn’t exactly have a fairy-princess look on her face either. So let’s not brag about progress.

By: DB

DB — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:14:46 +0000

waist not: want? not

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:25:21 +0000

Germans call a hairdresser a friseur, which suggests hot irons at a minimum. (shaketh head, thighs)

By: Xboy

Xboy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:41:45 +0000

It really doesn’t look binding or even tight fitting, if the drawing is accurate. As for why women would wear corsets that weren’t binding—well, people wore a lot of clothing back then. A middle-class woman of a century ago did not leave the house without a corset, slip, petticoats, stockings, garters, blouse, skirt, high-buttoned shoes, jacket, hat, and I’m probably forgetting a few items.
And I remember those weird ads at Wendy’s, too. I was fascinated by the barber who singed off your hair instead of clipping it.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:50:38 +0000

It would be great to have some ‘convert your blog to a 19th Century ad’ widget. It would take the text and auto-convert it into a suitable mix of (mostly tiny) fonts and italics and caps. You could call the process ‘bridgeporting the text’.

By: Grand Moff Texan

Grand Moff Texan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:10:19 +0000

Also, why do you call them disgusting? Do you hate FREEDOM!

FREE THE THIGHS
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By: Rich B.

Rich B. — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:06:49 +0000

Or, rather, will start publishing in October, 2008.

By: Rich B.

Rich B. — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:05:11 +0000

hey modesto kid, good eye, and great long-lost Pogo strips at that site! Where are they now ?

Fantagraphics has just started publishing the Complete Pogo. It is also publishing the Complete Peanuts, which my daughter is collecting.

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:24:51 +0000

Also, on this page (which looks to be well written but I don't see any information about the author): "It started with tightly wrapping babies and included children's corsets, forcing the still soft skeleton into a fashionable shape."

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:21:21 +0000

bernarda, this article on JSTOR might be useful—I don’t know for sure because I do not have access to it—Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing, Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West by David Kunzle

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:06:55 +0000

‘Freedom waist’ is funny-ish.

By: bernarda

bernarda — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:32:19 +0000

“The “French” style was to “tight-lace” girls beginning in childhood for the express purpose of producing narrow-waisted young women.”

What is your reference for that? I have never seen anything like that statement before.

By: DB

DB — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:35:17 +0000

the precise decimal sizing is also interesting