Luke Harby4d ago
The Public Domain Review
X-Ray images of women wearing corsets from French doctor Ludovic O'Followell's Le Corset (1908). Although keen to show the damaging impact of corsets, he did not actually want the corset to be abolished, but simply redesigned: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-corset-x-rays-of-dr-ludovic-o-followell-1908
Mar 23 at 3:17pmPDR Poster
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️4d ago
@publicdomainrev Ouch.
Show threadadamrice4d ago
@publicdomainrev It is fascinating that in the early 1800s, women were wearing empire dresses that didn’t emphasize their waists, but by 1830, they were back in dresses that did, with wasp-waisted corsets. I have no idea whether this was precipitated by the invention of the metal eyelet right around that time (as mentioned in the article), but it sure is an interesting coincidence.
Show threadMedusaSkirt4d ago

@publicdomainrev good time for reminder, at least from dress historians such as Bernadette Banner, Nicole Rudolph, among many others, that "very tight-laced corsets causing bodily damage" was a 19th century moral panic not really based in reality of how the overwhelming majority of corset wearing folks actually wore their corsets.

So as shocking as images like these are, they are not at all representative of the reality of corsets at their most popular (corsets never fully went away)

Show threadMedusaSkirt4d ago
@publicdomainrev Bernadette Banner video from 2019 about corset myths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExJskBZcW0
I Grew Up in a Corset. Time to Bust Some Myths. (Ft. Actual Research)

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