| #5 The above ‘twas I, cookie somehow lost. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-12-15 14:33 |
| #4 Tight lacing to create a wasp waist was the mark of the fashionable leisure class female at the time. Working class women did not lace tightly, nor did the sporty female, as it definitely got in the way of aerobic exercise. Yes, corsets do support the back, and helped support the weight of fashionable gowns, but beyond shaping the torso they provided the bracing structure undergirding bosom support in the long centuries before the invention of the brassiere. |
| Posted by: Harry Glereth4013 2024-12-15 14:32 |
| #3 Corsets were the rage then. The body conformed to area restrictions, and as I recall, there was less back trouble. Today, women snidely report that their spines were crushed. A ring or eyeglasses make the same indentations in different areas. |
| Posted by: Dale 2024-12-15 14:14 |
| #2 Judging from her waist size, women back then only had a small intestine; the large intestine must be a later evolutionary development. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-12-15 08:18 |
| #1 Siamese twins! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-15 01:56 |
