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APPENDIX B.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Madame Caplin's Corsets.—"Among the first-rate establishments in the metropolis for the manufacture of Ladies' Corsets, is the magazine of Madame Caplin, 58, Berners Street. An inspection of the various models, and different species of Corsets, will satisfy every one of the correctness of the prospectus the artiste has issued to the public."—Court Magazine, June, 1843.
"It has often been thought strange that so little improvement, that is, real improvement, should have taken place in one of the most essential articles of Ladies' dress—Stays; yet, it is easily accounted for, while nothing in dress requires more science, being too frequently left in the hands of mere working people, who do not understand the scientific application; and, therefore, the figure is often completely destroyed by the mal-appropriation of the material employed. We have heard of the Inventor of the Hygienic Corsets, of the Monitor Corsets, for Children, &c., but the extent of their usefulness we were wholly unacquainted with, till an advertisement drew us to Madame Caplin's, when the utility of the invention, and the danger of employing the inexperienced, was scientifically explained. In the Corsets manufactured by Madame Caplin there is ease, elegance, and comfort combined."—Court Gazette, Feb. 3rd, 1844.
Symmetrico-Restorator Corsets.—"When it is too late for the cure of the distortion of the Spine, the thing to be attempted is, first to afford relief by the application of proper support to
