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/SlowlyQuietly 3d ago

Corsets are a far more diverse support garment than they are given credit for! Theres 100% some that feel like torture devices, but you can say the same for bras or any support or brace garment being use incorrectly cant you?

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u/RosieTheRedReddit 3d ago edited 3d ago

Also, at the end of the day it's an undergarment you can take off whenever you want. What we do now with modifying your actual body is way more messed up when you think about it. In those days when the fashionable silhouette changed, they simply rearranged the padding. Now you have to cut and sew your body into the new shape 😕