The staymakers address to the ladies = L'addresse du faiseur de corps au damespublish'd according to act of Parliament, 1 August 1748.engfreA satire on women's fashion in the middle of the 18th century: in a richly appointed room, an elegant young woman with imposing stature looks the viewer in the eye as she is being measured (perhaps suggestively) by a gentleman staymaker while her maid looks on and assistsTitles engraved below image, in English and French.Twelve lines of verse, entirely in English, in two columns beneath titles: The shape and dress of evr'y fair, Fill all her thoughts with anxious care. If Nature shews some ugly part, How does it vex her tender heart. ...Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.