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/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.