Corsets are infamous as torturous devices, specially designed to keep women in their place and helpless. But reality is a little more complicated than that, as it always is. This episode discusses:
the origin of the corset
the evolving function of the corset
the 19th century corset
how small could a woman go?
who enforced this idea anyway?
how bad for your health was it?
where did the corset go?
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