Luann,
I understand what you mean. My grand-daughter is thin like yours and one
year old. She has food allergies. She is very low in the percentile on the
growth chart. I just measured her and she has a 19" waist. I have always
thought the adult under 20" waist was a crock. If you look at children's
pattern sizes, the waist sizes are larger than 19".
http://www.sewingpatterns.com/simplicity-charts2.html#babies
My DIL said her waist was 20" before having children and was a size 0. She
is very petite built. When I was a teenager and very thin, I had a 24"
waist. I started sewing with patterns in third grade and do not recall my
waist smaller.
The Valentine Museum has a lot of corsets in their collection and the
smallest waist is one corset at 20".
OTOH, The Corset book I mentioned has a chapter that about small waists in
the late 1700s or early 1800s. The author took quotes from Parisian
magazines/newspapers of young ladies writing the newspapers about their
small waist sizes. I took the chapter with a big grain of salt. The author
only does this in that one chapter. His style of writing changes completely
in this chapter.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
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