Distortion: a Word to Mothers.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The most common cause of a high shoulder is to be found in the abominable practice of undressing girls' necks as low as the hanging of their clothes will permit. Instead of the shoulder-straps of their dress being, as they should be, fairly above the root of the acromial processes [that is, on the centre of the shoulder,] they often--indeed, most commonly--either only skirt the extreme end of those processes, and rest on the founded upper part of the deltoid muscles, [resting nearly on the extreme edge of the shoulder,] or are actually far down on the arms; in suspension on the shoulders, is constantly dropping; and the girl, to save her clothes dropping down, or at least to keep them in place, is continually hitching up the shoulder, from which the shoulder-strap most easily slips, and thus the elevating muscles, becoming stronger on that side, pull the shoulder permanently up, and produce a very ugly appearance.