The headline brings an immediate chuckle: “How to be Plump.” Say what? Yes, in Victorian times, this 1988 book declares, there was a very different standard than today.
“Plump, plumper, plumpest--'twas the goal of all Americans in the 1880s,” writes authors Reinier Beeuwkes III and Rhonda Poe. “Once upon a time there was a world without aerobics where big hips were beautiful, and people could eat in peace.”
The book is a “re-creation” of an 1878 book by T.C. Duncan named
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