Quotes About Bustles

The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath…. And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.

It is not immodest, father. It's the fashion to wear bustles. HOBSON. Then to hell with the fashion.