A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a half and six bodies. The pressure it applied to women's bodies averaged twenty-one pounds but could reach as high as eighty-eight pounds. Tight-lacing was thus akin to crushing oneself slowly from all sides. As a harsh critic of the corset noted, 'It is evident, physiologically, that air is the pabulum of life, and that the effects of a tight cord round the neck and of tight-lacing only differ in degree.... for the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays is in many cases to wither, to waste and to die.
Joshua ZeitzTag: style freedom corsets strangulation flapper 1880s restrictive
Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.
Nina GarcíaTag: style self-esteem beauty confidence self-worth self-assurance
Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.
Helen OyeyemiStyle is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.
Nina GarcíaTag: style self-expression
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.
(“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)
Tag: style writing ireland writer writers-quotes
All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.
John JannuzziTag: style fashion clothing fashion-sense
... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic connections with others and eager to inflict as much pain as is compatible with a thin veneer of politeness. Whereas Blair judged the Addisonian sentence as a completely autonomous unit, Austen judges the sentence as the product of a pre-existing moral agent. What counts is the sentence's ability to reveal that agent, not to enshrine a free-standing morsel of truth.
Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, in contrast, features a quite different practice of the sentence, including an odd form of punctation ... The dashes in Mr Darcy's letter transform the typographical sentence by physically making each sentence continuous with the next one. ... The dashes insist that each sentence is not self-sufficient but belongs to a larger macrostructure. Most of Mr Darcy's justification consists not of organised arguments like those of Mr Collins but of narrative. ... The letter's totality exists not in the typographical sentence but in the described event.
Tag: style jane-austen grammar linguistics
although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.
Ellen KushnerTag: style
Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.
Stacey T. HuntTag: life inspirational style reading books love school writing writers inspiration world sleep youth heart read live fiction dream believe attitude lullaby dare young-adult author teens awesome nightmare young never give-up
You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.
Ann Marie FrohoffTag: humor inspirational truth art style love music inspiration inspirational-quotes fiction creativity fashion artists creative-process life-lessons writer author ya musician music-lyrics band teen yalit teen-fiction ya-romance bloggers blogger new-adult new-adult-romance
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