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Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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of corset-wearing. Study the figures of all thephotographs that have been reproducedin this issue and in the two previousinstallments of this article, and you willnot find in any one of the figures pre-sented therein any evidence of whatmight be termed a corset shape, althoughevery one of these women, as far as Iknow, was in the habit of wearingcorsets. They were of the ordinaryconventional type. The last figure in this article will giveyou a very fair idea of a well developed chest with a bust that is about normal.The arms, shoulders and neck of thisfigure are also well formed. In fact,this view of this figure furnishes one ofthe best examples of symmetrical pro-portions +hat has been presented inthis series. There is another pictureof the same woman in this article wherea front view of her is shown. Chest,neck, bust and waist show symmetricaloutlines and beauty of proportions,above the average, though it will benoted that the hips are entirely toolarge and the legs give evidence of
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Bust, chest shoulders and arms good.Hips too large and upper legs too fleshy andbadly formed. Side view of this same figureappearing on next page shows splendid out-line. THE AVERAGE WOMAN 211

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