18 Corset Photos That Will Make You Do A Double Take

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The "S curve"

A very fashionable profile around 1900 - courtesy of a corset.

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Kathy Pinna 195 followers 29.5k+ favorites

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Small waist and big hat - now that's fashion!

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Diane Unknown 4 followers 290 favorites

shared on 01/07/2017

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Edwardian fashion - 1908

Corseted and very covered up - what beautiful lace.

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Ouch!

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shared on 01/04/2012

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Paris fashion is always top notch

A postcard from the Folies Bergere in Paris, around 1900.

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Kathy Pinna 12 followers 2.74k+ favorites

shared on 10/06/2011

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Ethel Granger had the smallest waist size in recent history measuring in at 36-13-39

This English woman was out of the norm, pushing fashion limits - even with her nose piercing in 1959.

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Daniel Pinna 204 followers 8.97k+ favorites

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Impressive S-bend corset from around 1905.

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The things we do to look good

Even in 1903 we knew the negatives of wearing a corset.

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She takes pride in her fashion.

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Todd Martini 5 favorites

shared on 11/27/2014

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Didn’t matter if you were old or young - you wore a corset.

Jessie Louisa (MacFarlane) Pepper-Staveley

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Sue Aitchison-windeler 5 followers 581 favorites

shared on 10/14/2014

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NOT fair!

This man lets his belly hang while these two ladies suck it up.

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Wilma Ray 1 follower 316 favorites

shared on 10/29/2013

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Those curves!

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Tracy Waller 25 favorites

shared on 03/22/2014

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Pretty in pink.

Alice Octavia (Powers) Higginbotham, color

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Tracy Taylor 15 favorites

shared on 06/07/2013

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Fashion forced us to wear corsets even at work.

Nice mutton sleeves though!

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Even at the beach, you couldn’t escape corsets.

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Mary Vail 1 follower 85 favorites

shared on 05/06/2013

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Children were involved in the corset craze.

Making them instead of wearing them, thank goodness.

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Very elegant.

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Kathy Pinna 12 followers 2.74k+ favorites

shared on 09/11/2011

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How much is that corset in the window?

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18 Corset Photos That Will Make You Do A Double Take