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The History and Evolution of Corsets
TLDR Corsets have a long history and were a staple of women's fashion from the 18th century until World War I. They have since become a fashion accessory that can be worn in public, although they are mostly seen in costumes or certain nightclub settings.
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Corsets, specifically extreme lacing, are a personal choice that harm nobody and were often worn by women for their own tastes, sometimes in defiance of what men wanted.
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Corsets have a long history, dating back to ancient Crete, and were originally worn to shape and accentuate the female body.
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Corsets were a staple of women's fashion from the 18th century until World War I, and were not considered strange or unusual, but rather a regular fashion accessory.
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Corsets became even more extreme in the 1890s with the introduction of the Swan Bill corset, popularized by Charles Dana Gibson, but the trend only lasted for about a decade before corsets went out of fashion due to the social upheaval caused by World War I.
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Corsets remained popular throughout the 20th century, with brief resurgences in the 1940s and 1980s, and have since become a fashion accessory that can be worn in public, although they are mostly seen in costumes or in certain nightclub settings.
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Corsets were worn by women in history not only as a fashion statement but also to support heavy clothing and achieve a desired shape, and they were made of strong materials like whale bone and a fabric called Coutil, with a busk on the front and lacing in the back.
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The lacing of corsets traditionally involved bi-directional lacing, where you alternate from one hole to the other diagonally, but ladder lacing was also used and may have been for both aesthetic and practical reasons.
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Waist training can take about a decade to achieve the desired results, such as a waist that can be wrapped by the average five-year-old's fingers, and there are individuals who hold records for having extremely narrow waists, achieved through waist training over a period of time.
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There are rumors that Kathy Young's husband, an orthopedic surgeon, removed some of her ribs, but this is likely a myth as elective surgery to remove ribs in the 19th century would have been very dangerous.
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