r/comics • u/tabithajaneart • 3d ago

OC 2026 vs 1886 [OC]

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Great-great-great Grandma was serving

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u/SoLongHeteronormity 3d ago

WAIT, somebody acknowledging that the Victorian silhouette was largely because of padding?!?!?!?! <3 <3 <3 <3

Tight-waisting was NOT common, people! Cinching =/= tight-waisting, and is required to keep everything structurally in-place (as otherwise everything falls down because gravity).

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u/jade_cabbage 3d ago

I always get so peeved when people go and say corsets were torture devices women were forced to wear to please men or whatever.

My corsets are my most comfortable undergarments in my wardrobe. The back support feels amazing.

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u/Love-Future-3000 3d ago

Well we did have textbooks showing how the use of the corset rearranged organs. I have not seen many modern women wearing corsets pulled so tight as they were depicted in history.

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u/SoLongHeteronormity 3d ago

As I said in my comment, that wasn’t common back then either! Best to think of tight-lacing as the Victorian equivalent of stupid tik-tok pranks for attention.

People have been doing stupid shit that contemporaries saw as stupid shit throughout history.

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u/Beginning-Struggle49 3d ago

honestly, makes sense that there were "extremes" or outliers in that time, that got more attention. I'd say we see the equivalent everyday online, theseadays

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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 3d ago

Empress Sisi had special corsets made to accommodate how tightly she laced them, and people at the time thought it was...a choice. She was also anorexic (stopped eating completely whenever her weight approached a certain point) and exercised excessively.

Most photos of tightlacing have been photoshopped (painted over or edited) by the photographers of the time

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u/RShini 3d ago

that tight-lacing was why she didn't initially bleed out when she was assassinated.

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u/ToraRyeder 3d ago

I'm living for your comments.

The idea that humans are just recently doing stupid things for clout is just silly. In a few hundred years, people are probably going to think that a lot of the things we see on TikTok were fads that EVERYONE went through.

Humans are just humans lmao

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u/WonderingHarbinger 3d ago

Try thinking about it like shoes. There are some crazy-ass shoes out there. There are plenty of photos and x-rays of how they will mess up a person's feet. The thing to remember is that most people don't wear those shoes at all, and even the ones who do don't wear them all the time. It would be unreasonable to look at a fetish site, or even the Louboutin website and say that those are representative of the shoes people wear in 2026.

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u/Captain_StarLight1 3d ago

Oh like ballet shoes fucking up peoples feet.

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u/WonderingHarbinger 3d ago edited 2d ago

I feel like pointe shoes have their own level on the wtfery scale, way beyond such plebian footwear as 8-inch lucite platform heels with live goldfish inside. At least nobody is putting 12 year olds in stripper heels.

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u/EasyasACAB 3d ago

At least nobody is putting 12 year olds in stripper heels.

I don't know if we do them anymore but there was a time Child Beauty Pageants were in the public eye. They dressed those little kids like strippers. From what I saw on a documentary about them they could get disgustingly raunchy.

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u/Barbaracle 3d ago

Shoes thing is actually kinda true. I mean it's not bound foot of China bad, but podiatrists say 63%-72% of people globally wear wrong size of shoe. Look up pictures of what a modern foot vs what a natural foot looks like.

I had to go through this myself and that's why barefoot, low drop, wide-toe box, etc shoes have become a thing in the past decades or so.

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u/twinnedcalcite 3d ago

The same doctors also said that riding a bike would cause a women's organs to fall out.

Also riding on a train was also a risk to a women's fertility.

Blame the corset for women fainting. NOT TB that was an ever common threat.

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u/-Random_Lurker- 3d ago

Or the laudanum they were constantly on.

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u/lieslandpo 3d ago

Those are fictitious depictions made to make women look stupid and/or silly for doing extreme things for fashion. Most people did not do tightlacing anyhow. That’d be like saying most girls are getting their ribs removed for a smaller waist in modern times.

You have to remember photos were edited as well. People vastly underestimate how much the rest of the clothing (large skirts and sleeves) does for the overall silhouette too.

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u/Intrepid-Attempt7577 3d ago

It's actually kind of a shame that these textbooks had such striking imagery and spent time on this little anecdote... Because it did happen, but was largely viewed as a vain and niche fashion trend that didn't see broad appeal even at the time.

Like if the textbooks of the future talked about 21st century fashion trends talking about how women suffered from wearing 6-8 inch heels all day in the office, and men were rendered temporarily infertile because skinny jeans and leather pants were too tight... Real things that really aren't as significant as it would seem.

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u/A-Grey-World 3d ago

That's because elastic was invented, and bras are typically cheaper and more convenient.

Most of the "moving organs about" was utter nonsense. Like how they thought the womb migrated around the body and caused "hysteria" (a woman having opinions)