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2. Corset controversy - Wikipedia

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   Women in 1870s gowns wearing corsets. The corset controversy was a moral panic and public health concern around corsets in the 19th century.. Corsets, variously called a pair of bodys or stays, were worn by European women from the late 16th century onward, changing their form as fashions changed.

3. Tightlacing - Wikipedia

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   While supporters of fashionable dress contended that corsets maintained an upright, "good figure", and were a necessary physical structure for a moral and well-ordered society, dress reformers maintained that women's fashions were not only physically detrimental, but "the results of male conspiracy to make women subservient by cultivating them ...

4. History of corsets - Wikipedia

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   Woman's stays c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with whalebone. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5. [1]The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets.

5. 'Bridgerton' is making corsets cool again. But are they safe ...

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   In fact, she says, one theory as to why corsets fell out of fashion initially had to do with the rise of dieting — while women used to control their waists with an external device, like a corset ...

6. Are corsets safe to wear? Here's what you need to know - AOL

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7. Corset - Wikipedia

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   Western women were thought to be weaker and more prone to birth complications than the ostensibly more vigorous, healthier, "primitive" races who did not wear corsets. Dress reformers exhorted readers to loosen their corsets, or risk destroying the "civilized" races.