"Although, as we said before, this is the first book that we have seen of the kind, it is a very promising one, and we hope it will be the pioneer to many others. It is a book that should be in every family wherever there are children to nurse or ladies to dress."—Morning Star, September 27th, 1856.
"Madame Caplin is not a mere theorist. She has long had to deal with ladies in the way of Corsets, and, like a sensible woman, deeply impressed with an important truth, she has laboured hard, and not without success, to reform the pernicious custom which produces absolute deformity and ill-health in an unnecessary process for obtaining beauty of figure. Madame Caplin begins at the beginning, however, with the dress adapted for infancy; and thence she passes through the several states of girlhood and womanhood to middle and old age; and her book, which is profusely illustrated with lithographs, may be profitably read by both mothers and daughters."—Sunday Times, Sept. 26th, 1856.
"Madame Caplin's book is very sensibly written, and we should think would be useful to the principals of ladies' schools, who might obtain from it the materials for a few short lectures to be orally addressed to their pupils. There are numerous illustrations."—The Era, Oct. 5th, 1856.
"It merits the attention of all."—Weekly Dispatch, Oct. 5th, 1856.
"Madame Caplin desires to withdraw the clothing of the female form from the arbitrary empiricism of the modiste, and to reduce it to scientific rules. Like Carlyle she writes the philosophy of clothes, but in quite another spirit. She contemplates the human race, at least that part living in civilized society, as beings made to be clothed, and she examines their wants from birth to the last stage of life. She is further separated from the modiste by the fact that she does not concern
