Turn Up the Heat

For the Ladies: At our infamous lingerie program, Nancy King revealed that the Ladies of Lawrence bravely squeezed into these “engineering marvels”—risking a little health for a lot of va-va-voom. As the April 1881 edition of the Rural Republican reported: “The Robinson Brothers moved into the rooms formerly occupied by Barnes and Abernathy."

The editor could hardly contain his excitement when he discovered Bortrees’s Adjustable Duplex Corset—'undeniably the best on the market' (and how would he know?) was sold there for only $1.25. Who says you can’t buy curves?

So, if you wanted to be the talk of the town (or just turn up the heat in the village of Lawrenceville), you knew exactly where to shop!