'.... the corset is, in economic theory substantially a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subjects' vitality and rendering her permanently and obviously unfit for work.... the corset, and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilised women's apparel, are so many items of evidence to the effect that in the modern civilised scheme of life the woman is still in theory, the economic dependent of the man, - that,.... she is still the man's Chattel..... '
Veblen

So I'm dating my tintype for a research paper, based on the womens costumes. Let's say a little thanks and praise that this is a jeans and tshirt era-- not the Edwardian bustle and corset era.