A TIGHT DRESS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

A TIGHT DRESS.

IT may be well to consider for a moment what a tight dress is, says a lady physician, writing of the evils of tight lacing. Dr. Robert Dickinson has tested the pressure of the corset by an ingenious device, and found that, in a case where the woman measured twenty-seven inches without a corset and twenty-seven inches with one—the same measurement, you see, and you would insist her dress was not tight—the corset exerted a pressure of forty pounds. When her waist measurement was reduced to twenty-five and one-half inches, the pressure was seventy-three and one-half pounds. This gives you an idea of what is really a tight dress. We forget that our dresses are usually fitted over empty lungs, thus giving no chance for expansion in breathing. If this occurs in ever so slight a degree, the dress is tight.