Gilded Age Girls Who Walk Badly

“…New York is filled with girls who walk badly.” – The $3.50 for 20 lessons in 1892 would be worth about $124.00 today. – The 1892 patent above is for a “dress shield or protector.”

Learning to Walk

According to an enthusiast on physical culture New York is filled with girls who walk badly. To get rid of the “plug, plug” of the heels the pupils are taken to the top of Murray Hill and made to toe down. They retrace in the stage and make the descent again and again. Price, $3.50 a term of twenty lessons. —New York World, 1892

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