Get A Grip!
Gosh, these look like almost industrial strength suspenders! Some more adverts from the Needlecraft
magazine of about 1900.
And, if F Cecil Russell's cure for corpulence didn't work,
then I suppose its back to the corset!
Such a lot of underwear - and doesn't look that comfortable,
either!
Enjoy what's left of your Sunday.
Love, Liz
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What superb advertisements. And we are old enough to remember seeing not such dissimilar signs in department stores in London in the 1950s.
Enjoy your Sunday too. It is, sadly, rapidly slipping away.
Happy Sunday to you too,
Xx
Love from Mum
xx
Anne xx
Best wishes
Jenny
And the Formu corset which gives "undersized busts a pleasing suggestion of generous proportions" was clearly the chicken fillet/Wonderbra of its day! Plus ca change...
Great ads, Liz! xxxx
My~ how times have changed! People seem to let it all 'hang out' now, when they perhaps shouldn't hehe.
I did notice YOU in Pretty Nostalgic Mag....
Such a lovely read...
With kind thoughts, Maria X