All Comments on 'Miss Mabel Ch. 05'

It does not look like any other Romance story I read before.

5 * for you.

I apologize for my English (yet), is not my native language.

It is good to read a story about Victorian England that gets so many details right, especially details of dress. I'm especially pleased that you noted the shift that Mabel wore under the corset (corsets were too expensive to buy and difficult to wash to wear next to the skin). However, it is highly unlikely that the corset would have been laced so tightly as to cause marks on the body.

Women wore a corset for comfort and for very practical reasons apart from attracting the male gaze.

Tight lacing was only in vogue for a short period. Then only by, as one dress historian put it, ladies who had nothing better to do than sit around looking desirable. Camille may have tight laced but Mabel never. Hollywood has a lot to answer for.