Lady Of Distinction

"eulogize the taste which prevails with persons of real judgement, to maintain the ease and gracefulness...against a new race of stay-makers, corset-inventors and those who have just armed themselves with whalebone, steel, and buckram, to the destruction of all the naturally-elegant shapes which fall into their hands"  I believe this picture is a fine example in my point being that you do not need to squeeze your curves into steel and whale bone to be beautiful, when you can find even more beauty in your natural shape.