A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . s are now in hygienic J J dressing. vogue, having for their object the great desideratumof adjusting womans dress so as to make it bothhealthful and beautiful. Fortunately, in this enlight-ened age ideas of physical culture are so modifyingold-time ideas of beauty that the wasp waist, the Fig. 6. Nipple Protector. multitudinous and voluminous skirts, the awkwardand deforming bustle, the high-heeled boot, are fastbecoming relics of the past. Among the dress-reform systems now in existence there is none sofully meets my views


A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . s are now in hygienic J J dressing. vogue, having for their object the great desideratumof adjusting womans dress so as to make it bothhealthful and beautiful. Fortunately, in this enlight-ened age ideas of physical culture are so modifyingold-time ideas of beauty that the wasp waist, the Fig. 6. Nipple Protector. multitudinous and voluminous skirts, the awkwardand deforming bustle, the high-heeled boot, are fastbecoming relics of the past. Among the dress-reform systems now in existence there is none sofully meets my views of healthful and beautifuldressing as the Jenness-Miller System. But fewgarments constitute the costume, and these are soconstructed as to allow perfect freedom of everypart of the body. A complete costume for summer wear, accordingto this system, would consist in the chemilette—a 44 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. combinedchemise and pair of drawers—around thewaist of which buttons may be fastened, to whichthe second article of dress, the divided skirt or Fig. 7. Fig.


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