Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].[4 November 1777]engIn a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her high heels are visible beneath the hem of a quilted skirt. To the left is a chair beneath a casement window, while a bird in a cage is suspended from the ceiling on the rightTitle from item.Eight lines of verse in 2 columns below image beginning: "The hoity head & toity waist, As now they're all the ton ..."