Did women really use corsets to achieve 13-inch waists? Did men demand such obscenely tiny waists? Did women make themselves sick misshaping their livers with these contraptions?
The corset has a bad reputation. And unfairly so, according to Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who says this undergarment of centuries past is not nearly as evil or confining as modern folks have come to believe. Here are the top three misunderstood facts about corsets.
(thanks Lisa)The Presurfer