#corset books

[heartnosekid]

day 14 of @deadboystims’ 300 follower event: a stimboard of my favorite fashion style, which would be victorian goth!!

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[bilberry-jam]

It's been far too long since I last drew Yennefer :)

[thegothicalice]

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[marzipanandminutiae]

the listening/reading comprehension- where is it?

dress history researchers: corsets and stays are not universal torture devices that render basic physical functionality impossible. most women did not tightlace to extremes in their everyday lives. fiction and pop history distort the realities of those women's lives and how they wore their corsets to play into popular misconceptions partially originated by men both fetishizing and demonizing corsets when they were more common.

some person on the internet: OMG STOP SAYING ALL WOMEN LOVED CORSETS!!! CLEARLY YOU ARE SAYING THAT CORSETS ARE THE BEST THING EVER FOR EVERY WOMAN, AND THAT THEY NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HARMFUL BEAUTY STANDARDS THROUGHOUT ALL OF HISTORY FOREVER AMEN!!!!

[kirstydreaming]

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[dreveel]

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[cinderellaheist]

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Here Harriet called out her own apparel as being inadequate for the task at hand.

In our late expedition up the Combahee River, in coming on board the boat, I was carrying two pigs for a poor sick woman, who had a child to carry, and the order 'double quick' was given, and I started to run, stepped on my dress, it being rather long, and fell and tore it almost off, so that when I got on board the boat there was hardly any thing left of it but shreds. I made up my mind then I would never wear a long dress on another expedition of the kind, but would have a bloomer as soon as I could get it.

It was typical of Harriet to be so focused on the needs of others in the moment... that she tripped in the process. She also announced that she desired the practical, split-leg garment that was becoming a visible signifier of women's independence. Here, too, her commentary was social critique, highlighting the confining clothing women were expected to wear. Harriet had said, before the war: "The good Lord was come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him." Carrying out God's mission, in her view, left room for social analysis, for vanquishing enemies with the sword, and for women's unabashed leadership.

Tiya Miles, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

[gratielalovebot]

just some little sigmas because he is very dear to me

[goodgrammaritan]

Heroines always complained about corsets in stories. Not being a heroine, she found corsets entirely necessary to support wicked curves. Emer had made clear the chemise was a scandalous garment. Dressed thus, the scaffolding that heaved Rae's bosom high was obvious.

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

[artschoolglasses]

Every time a piece of media uses the “I can’t breathe” corset trope, a fashion historian cries.

[micawla]

“Headline: Christmas Prince falls into minor coma at sight of guy he kissed one and a half years ago who had the audacity to get even hotter in the interim” has got to be one of the funniest opening lines to a chapter I’ve read in a long time

[starry-astronaut-creates]

[marzipanandminutiae]

this bizarre 2003 anti-corset dress history book I’m reading: ...and doctors observed this Mysterious Women’s Illness called chlorosis! Nobody knew what caused it, but one pioneering doctor realized it was linked to the Evils of Corsetry!

a 5-second Internet search: It’s hypochromic anemia. They realized that in 1937.

[kirstydreaming]

Katiusha Feofanova for Lacemade

[dreveel]

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