The Body Destroying Effects Of Victorian Beauty | Hidden Killers | Absolute History

Victorians women: we have the smallest waist Barbie: nope I have the smallest waist

The organs being distorted only happened during tight lacing. The “normal” wear was no different than wearing a strapless bra and a tight dress today.

How disappointing, corsets aren’t killing machines just get one that fits you properly and don’t tight lace and your fine. And most women in the Victorian era looked down upon tight lacing. Corsets are just like bras today they’ll help with your back support and are needed for specific clothing. Edit: I wrote this as it makes it look like corsets are bad and the media also makes corsets look bad I’m just trying to inform people. In the video they didn’t make corsets look good, I’m not saying I’m a doctor or anything I’m just trying to inform since They got the women a corset and try it. They didn’t even put it on properly, and she got out of breath. There is more misinformation in the video and it just made corsets look bad. (Sorry for writing mistakes and if I worded some things wrong, I wrote this in a hurry)

Guys corsets weren’t deadly nearly every single woman of every class wore them so of course a few women went too far

Lives in a world full of arsenic, boric acid and asbestos. DIES BY EATING RAW RICE

Now: Oh my gosh! why would they do that to themselves?! Also now: I'm too pale! Let me slip into this cancerous light coffin to tan my skin.

No one: Corner of the newspaper at 5:40: body of a child found

thumbnail: 'Killer Corsets' Fashion Historians and people with basic common sense of fashion history: Are we a joke to you?

Pregnancy corset? Really? That scares me

I’m as pale as a ghost, legally considered blind, my hairs a unruly mess, the Edwardian men would be falling over themselves

"Twenty-four inches!" "Twenty-four and three quarters." Dang, lady is brutal

My great-grandmother was born in the 19th century and her youngest child (she had four) was born in 1915. When I asked her if she wore a corset during her pregnancies she exclaimed indignantly "Of cause! I just loosen it up a bit!".

They hired that dude just to draw on him with markers

Those pesky organs. Always getting in the way.

Victorian: Oh no! I died from putting poison on my face Millennial: Oh no! I got melanoma from a tanning bed

I honestly find it hilarious that these fashion historians are talking about how "CorSEts ARe dEaDLy!" while just ordinary people like my self, with only a small interest and limited knowledge on historical fashion, are just like "But they're not though, are they."

"she covered her face in poison" - we haven't gone too far from them ...

Most women did not tightlace their corsets and even when tightlacing became more common in the late 19th and early 20th century women didn’t do it everyday because it was inconvenient and they had work to do and a life to live and tightlaced corsets made it harder to do that. Corsets’ main function was more like bras and many historical examples of people talking about the health hazards of tightlaced corsets were by men who were against women’s suffrage and wanted to make women sound vain and stupid by saying that they were willing to break ribs or stop breathing in order to have a smaller waist. Although corsets did give the appearance of a more hourglass figure, they did not do so by harming women’s bodies.

Me: * only two minutes into the video * Also me: * cringing at the historical inaccuracy * Corsets were not a form of oppression, they were underwear, a far superior form to what we have now. Why does this video do this, haven't we moved passed such errors?

I actually used to wear a corset when I was young. It was quite comfortable, to the point where I forgot I was wearing it, until it was time to take it off.