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| Crinolines in a gale, Punch 1863 |
Disorder of a lady's toilet can be excused when it occurs rarely, or for a short time, as in such cases it seems evidently owing to a temporary embarrassment; but if it occur daily or constantly, if it seem the result of negligence or slovenliness, it is unpardonable.
To suppose that great heat of weather will authorize the disorder of the toilet, and will permit us to go in slippers, or with our legs and arms bare, or to take nonchalant and improper attitudes, is an error of persons of a low class, or destitute of education. Even the weather of dog-days would not excuse this; and if we would remain thus dressed, we should excuse ourselves from seeing company...
--The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility (1856), p. 119-120
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