Medical doctors almost uniformly expressed concern that tight lacing was not healthful, there doesn’t appear to be a thoroughly documented death caused by the fashion. In the autumn of 1888, Mrs.
Long before the sexual revolution led women to shed their bras and girdles for physical freedom, early feminists campaigned against a far more restrictive garment. “Burn the corsets!” wrote Elizabeth ...
BENNINGTON, Vt. -- In 1837, when Susan Dyer Spencer Munro walked down the main street of Shaftsbury, Vt., she wore a coppery corset with a stiff busk in front. No one except Susan (and perhaps her ...
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