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Valerie Steele: The Corset: a cultural history. 2nd print. Auflage. Yale University, New Haven 2003, ISBN 978-0-300-09953-9, S.5 (google.co.uk).
Elizabeth Ewing: Fashion in underwear: from Babylon to bikini briefs. Dover Auflage. Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y. 2010, ISBN 978-0-486-47649-0, S.28 (google.co.uk).
Harold Koda: Extreme beauty: the body transformed. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-300-10312-0, S.75–76 (google.co.uk).
C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington: The history of underclothes. 1992 reprint Auflage. Dover Pub., New York 1951, ISBN 978-0-486-31978-0, S.48 (google.co.uk).
Unknown: Untitled section. In: The Journal of the American Medical Association. American Medical Association, 1902, S.1439 (google.co.uk): „I always advise the aluminium corset, for, although the first cost is greater than for the plaster-of-paris support, yet, before treatment is ended, the metal appliance will have proved the cheaper.“
Akiko Fukai: Fashion: the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute: a history from the 18th to the 20th century. Taschen, Köln 2002, ISBN 978-3-8228-1206-8, S.13–15 (google.co.uk).
