The Public Domain Review5d ago
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
Show threadMedusaSkirt

@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)

Mar 23 at 5:03pmWeb
Show threadMedusaSkirt5d 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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