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/tabithajaneart 3d ago

The tight lacing myth is such a personal peeve of mine 😭 Especially the whole "they were deforming their ribcages" bit

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u/D1sgracy 3d ago

They found like, 1-2 skeletons and started making shit up. It’s like if in 200 years someone dug up clavicular and were like “it’s was a custom of the early 21st century for men to surgically change their jawlines, it was expected of every adult man”