Female Beauty is blessed with having beautifully colored illustrations, depicting, as far as I can tell, the "before" and "after" pictures of young ladies in certain fashion dilemmas. I scanned a two-page image of the book to show you what it's like ~ notice the cutout on the page on the right.

This allows you to flip back and forth. Bad, good! Bad, good! Oooh, lovely! Now, I must admit that I had a bit of trouble figuring out which was the "good" version, and although I thought it was the one on the right (below), friends consulted insist the better dress is the one on the left. And the caption for the one on the left, by the way, says "Management of Thick Waist," crediting J. T. Bowen of 94 Walnut Street in Pennsylvania with creating the lithographs, so they must be right.

Source: Female Beauty

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