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 INVENTIONS FOR THE ADAPTATION OF THE DRESS TO THE BODY; THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH;

The Cure of Deformity, and the Display of Beauty.

position which we have for so many years sustained before the public has been so well appreciated that we may be pardoned the vanity of presenting a few of the many Testimonials which have been voluntarily offered to us by the Press. We are induced to do this the more readily, since the thousands who have privately borne their grateful testimony to the value of our invention and the merit of our advice have done so in con­fidence; and their communications cannot therefore be printed without violating that mutual understanding between us and our patrons which is always sacred in our eyes.

It is now many years since we set seriously and earnestly to work to reform the common notions respecting Female Dress. At that time ours was a solitary voice, uttered to a small and too often listless and inattentive audience. There were no Ladies' Newspapers, nor English Women's Reviews, nor Women's Rights Societies in those days, and, except a few