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The "S curve"
A very fashionable profile around 1900 - courtesy of a corset.
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Edwardian fashion - 1908
Corseted and very covered up - what beautiful lace.
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Paris fashion is always top notch
A postcard from the Folies Bergere in Paris, around 1900.
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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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The things we do to look good
Even in 1903 we knew the negatives of wearing a corset.
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NOT fair!
This man lets his belly hang while these two ladies suck it up.
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Fashion forced us to wear corsets even at work.
Nice mutton sleeves though!
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Children were involved in the corset craze.
Making them instead of wearing them, thank goodness.
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