Keywords: 1800-vs-1830 womens clothing pressure-points.png Analysis by Carl Heinrich Stratz 1858-1924 of the pressure points of women's clothing styles that is areas where the clothing is held tightly against the outline of the body or from which the weight of the clothing is suspended These are shown in red color in the image Above The pressure-points of ca 1800 high-waisted Empire clothing styles Below The pressure points for ca 1830 narrow-waisted clothing styles Notice that the Empire style does not involve constricting the waist Also the Empire style involves partially suspending the weight of the clothing from the shoulders something considered highly-desirable by many late 19th-century dress-reform advocates and the overall weight of the Empire clothing would have been less than that of the 1830-era clothing ;Upper left Fig 73 Empirecostüm im Jahre 1800 Costümbild aus dem Figaro illustré ;Upper right Fig 74 Körperumrisse von Fig 73 ;Lower left Fig 75 Costümbild aus dem Jahre 1830 Journal des dames ;Lower right Fig 76 Körperumrisse von Fig 75 This image is derived from images Image Empirecostum imJahre1800 gif and Image Costumbild aus demJahre1830 gif uploaded by Haabet Ultimate source Die Frauenkleidung by Dr C H Stratz 1902 pages 135-138 <gallery>File Costumbild aus demJahre1830 gif File Empirecostum imJahre1800 gif</gallery> 1902 Carl Heinrich Stratz 1858-1924 PD-old-auto-1923 1924 1800s fashion Empire silhouette Stratz_-_Die_Frauenkleidung Original upload log wikitable - - 2006-07-27 17 35 34 1160 × 2979 211608 bytes Churchh <nowiki>Analysis by Carl Heinrich Stratz 1858-1924 of the pressure points of women's clothing styles that is areas where the clothing is held tight against the outline of the body or from which the weight of the clothing is suspended These are shown in r</nowiki> |