Corset controversy
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Unhealthy overuse of corsets was a topic of public concern throughout the 19th century, at times escalating to a moral panic. Female fashion trends such as tightlacing or wasp waists encouraged excess
Women in 1870s gowns wearing corsets
"Tight Lacing, or Fashion before Ease"
Evening dress, 1838
"A cutting wind, or the fatal effects of tight-lacing", a satirical cartoon from around 1820
Tightlacing
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Tightlacing is the practice of wearing an increasingly tightly laced corset to achieve cosmetic modifications to the figure and posture or to experience the sensation of bodily restriction. The proces
Corset controversy
…overuse of corsets was a topic of public concern throughout the 19th century, at times escalating to a moral panic. Female fashion trends such as tightlacing or wasp waists encouraged excessively thin waists, leading to women possibly harming themselves to achieve certain bodily proportions. Corsets, variously…
An advertisement for corsets with waist sizes from 15 to 23 inches (38 to 58 cm)